The Phantom Tollbooth | Teaching Key Figures

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Milo - This character is a young boy with too much time and too little to do who travels to a mystical land through a phantom tollbooth.

Tock - This character is the watchdog who reprimands the main character for wasting or "killing" time.

The Humbug - This character, who is almost always wrong, is sometimes a member of the main character's team.

King Azaz - This character is the monarch of Dictionopolis who is obsessed with words.

The Mathemagician - This character is the brother of the monarch of Dictionopolis and is...
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