The Phantom Tollbooth (Ch 1-8)

Who is the main character of the story?

• The Whether Man

• Milo

• The Tollbooth

• The Lethargians

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CCSS.RL.4.3

What did the main character find unexpectedly in his room in chapter 1?

• A Lottery Ticket

• A Tollbooth

• Drums

• Dinner

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

What does Milo use to travel through the tollbooth?

• An automobile

• A bus

• A plane

• A train

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

What is the first place Milo visits?

• Doldrum

• The Land of Expectations

• Dictionopolis

• The Market

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

Who said "It's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be."

• Tock

• Milo

• The Lethargians

• Whether Man

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

Read the sentence from page 9 paragraph 2. "Wherever he was he wished he was somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd bothered. Nothing really interested him-least of all things that should have." Based on this sentence, what is one conclusion the reader can make about Milo?

• That Milo is not confident

• That Milo is curious about life

• That Milo is bored with his life

• That Milo is not very smart

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.3

Who helped Milo get out of the Doldrums?

• The Lethargians

• Tock

• Whether Man

• Humbug

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

Who said "No one's allowed to think in the Doldrums."

• The Whether Man

• Tock

• The Lethargians

• Milo

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

Why did Milo refuse to buy "flabbergast", "quagmire", and "a few pounds of happy"?

• He only had enough money to get back through the tollbooth.
• He thought buying words was ridiculous.
• He didn't like those words.
• He didn't know what the words meant.

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CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.6

Did all the letters in the Word Market taste the same?

• yes
• no