The Phantom Tollbooth Chapters 1-13

How did Milo feel about school at the beginning of the book?

• He loved it because he loved to learn

• He wasn't interested in school at all

• He thought it was dandy

• He skipped school

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What was NOT in the mysterious package Milo opened?

• a tollbooth

• signs

• coins

• calendar

In Chapter 2, Milo enters the Doldrums. In the Doldrums, it is against the law to:

• Sleep

• Think

• Drive

• Ask questions

What's one strange thing about the Whether Man?

• He gives Milo advice

• He lives in the Doldrums

• He can't make up his mind

• He gives Milo wrong directions

What does "lethargy" mean?

• excited and energetic

• lazy and tired

• confused and frustrated

• angry and mad

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

Who got into an argument at The Word Market?

• Tock and Milo

• The Spelling Bee and Milo

• Officer Short Shrift and Tock

• The Spelling Bee and The Humbug

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.1.1

What are the names of the two lands ruled by King Azaz and the Mathemagician?

• Wordworld and Numberland

• Letterland and Digitworld

• Dictionopolis

  and Digitopolis

• Dictionary City

  and Digit City.

The King's Advisors had....

• wide hats

• huge shoes

• large vocabularies

• keys to the dungeon

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

What is the meaning of "macabre"?

• full of anger

• dangerous

• related to death

• a dirty toilet

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

How does Milo want to help The Which?

• get her back to the Word Market

• rescue Rhyme and Reason

• help The Mathemagician

• Create peace between the brothers