The Phantom Tollbooth Act 2

What did the Mathmagician say they did with the numbers that are broken in the mine?

• make Subtraction Stew

• make Fractions

• Make "pi"

• Make Addition Oatmeal

In the play, why does the Mathemagician call his pencil a "magic staff"?

• It shines like a flashlight.
• It gives him the power to be king.
• It can be used to solve problems.
• It can make demons disappear.

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What food does Milo, Tock, and Humbug eat in Digitopolis

• Starvation Stew

• Subtraction Stew

• Addition Stew

• Addition Oatmeal

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Milo meets demons in Act II, what do the demons and Milo's encounter with them most likely represent?

• people who are set in teir ways and cannot change and people who hate anyone who disagrees with them

• attitudes that waste time and weaken self-confidence and the struggles of young epople to learn and better themselves

• all the qualities that can be found in a sensible young man

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In the play, the Terrible Trivium makes the following statement to Milo:

If you spend all your time doing only the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have time to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. What does his speech most clearly imply or suggest about human beings?

• People sometimes avoid difficult tasks by doing easy ones instead.

• People worry too much about the difficult tasks they must do.

• People have too many easy and useless jobs they must do.

• People need help figuring out which tasks are important.

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How did Milo impact the argument between Azaz and Mathmagician?

• He tricks them by giving them math problems to complete.
• He tricks them be confusing them with words.
• He tricks them by showing them another route to take.
• He tricks them by saying that if they agree to disagree that they are really agreeing.

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According to King Azaz and the Mathemagician, why is Milo able to do the impossible in Act II of the play?

• He has Tock and Humbug to help him.
• He does not know that the task is impossible.
• He has learned a lot about math and numbers.
• He is dreamingm and anything can happen in a dream.

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In Act II, which item helps Milo rescue the princesses from the Castle-in-the-Air?

• the car
• the tollbooth
• the magic pencil
• the package of letters

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What is true about both King Azaz and the Mathemagician at the end of the play?

• They both want Rhyme and Reason to reign again.
• They both want numbers to be most important.
• They both want words to be most important.
• They both want Milo punished.

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Which sentence best explains how Milo has changed by the end of the play?

• He has learned to make friends more easily,
• He has become afraid of making mistakes.
• He has become bored and tired.
• He has learned to value time.

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