What is a tollbooth?
What is a tollbooth?
A tollbooth (or toll booth) is a booth placed along a toll road, often in a toll plaza, that collects a toll.
What is in the package that Milo receives?
King Azaz gives Milo a box containing the letters of the alphabet.
What did the Dynne do once a day?
Clouds gathered and covered the moon. What did the DYNNE do once a day? They rained down from the clouds.
What did Milo think was the greatest waste of time why?
He is bored senseless by practically everything in his life and is constantly trying to find something exciting or interesting. Milo especially dislikes his schoolwork because he cannot understand the use behind learning geography or math and thinks that learning is “the greatest waste of time of all.”
What fueled the car leaving the doldrums?
What fueled the car leaving the Doldrums? The car was fueled by Milo using his brain; thoughts.
What did King Azaz and the Mathemagician promise to do?
King Azaz and the Mathemagician promised that they would lead their armies to the Mountains of Ignorance every year, until all the demons were defeated.
Who keeps Dynne in a bottle?
Dr. Dischord
What does King Azaz give Milo?
Helping the Cause Like the Mathemagician, King Azaz lets Milo go on a quest he knows is “impossible” (19.53), but he doesn’t send Milo away empty-handed. Instead, he gives Milo a treasured box of “all the words [he] know[s]” (8.64).
What does King Azaz palace look like?
What does King Azaz’s palace look like? It looked like an enormous book. The inside was filled with mirrors and chandeliers.
What power does Alec Bings have?
Alec has the special ability to “see through things” and can see anything except that which is right before his eyes.
Why did King Azaz give Milo a box of letters?
Why did Azaz give Milo the letters? Its so he could be protected on his journey, the box was full of the alphabet so Milo could spell things that he was in need of.
What does the gardener most likely mean when she says I surmise that a rabbit has eaten the lettuce?
What did the gardener most likely mean when she said, “I surmise that a rabbit has eaten the lettuce?” Base your answer on the meaning of surmise. The gardener planted the lettuce for a rabbit to eat. The gardener hoped that a rabbit would eat the lettuce. The gardener knew for certain a rabbit had eaten the lettuce.
Who is tock and what does he look like?
In The Phantom Tollbooth, Tock the watchdog is a traditional watchdog, guarding things. He’s also part dog, part watch – his head, legs and tail are like a dog, and his body is like an old-fashioned watch. This is an old-fashioned pocket watch, like the one Tock has for his body.
What is the meaning of faintly macabre story?
The word macabre means something having to do with death, usually something disturbing or unpleasant. This character is called faintly macabre – slightly unpleasant or disturbing.
What does Azaz mean?
Strong one
What does faintly mean?
fainted; fainting; faints. Definition of faint (Entry 2 of 3) intransitive verb. 1 : to lose consciousness because of a temporary decrease in the blood supply to the brain. 2 archaic : to lose courage or spirit.
Why did Faintly Macabre go to jail?
How did Faintly Macabre end up in prison? She made fun of Officer Shrift’s weight problem. She stole from the word market. She began to horde all the words in Dictionopolis.
Who was the king of Digitopolis?
King Azaz
What is one reason officer shrift does not like Milo?
” There are two possible explanations: either he doesn’t care that Milo is out of prison and ignoring his prison sentence, or he really thinks that six million years might have passed since the morning. Either way, Officer Shrift is not paying much attention to his surroundings or to Milo.
What is Chroma’s job Why do you think his job is so important?
Chroma’s job is to conduct the orchestra that colors every day; without him and the instruments, the world would have no color at all.
What does the doctor of dissonance specialize in?
Dischord is a doctor, who specializes in “noise”.
What is Chromas job?
Chroma is the conductor of the color orchestra, and his job is to conduct the sunrise and sunset.
What gift does chroma give to Milo What is it for?
Chroma is the conductor of the color orchestra. Unlike many of the other powerful figures in the book, he doesn’t give Milo a tangible present. Instead, he gives Milo responsibility, asking him to wake him up in time for the sunrise. But this responsibility is definitely a gift, just of a different kind.
What did Milo learn in the forest of sight?
From Alec Bings, Milo learns a great deal about perspective. Alec Bings has the unfortunate fate to have to look at things from the same perspective for his entire life. Rather than seeing things differently as he ages, like most people do, Alec will always have the same grown-up outlook.
What did Alec mean when he said that everyone must look at things from his own point of view?
The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from….” Alec is teaching Milo that he should have his own point of view and learn to decide for himself what to think. Milo shouldn’t just go along with what everyone else does or thinks, but he should instead make up his own mind.
What does Milo learn in the land of illusions?
What does Milo learn in the land of Illusions? He learns that everything looks nice but nothing is actually there. For example you could see a hamburger but if you try to bite it you would bite into nothing.