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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the Castle in the Air after the stairway is destroyed?
(a) It begins to float away.
(b) It begins to fall toward the earth.
(c) It begins to glide toward the earth.
(d) Nothing.

2. How long does Milo calculate it will take to finish the tasks assigned by the faceless man?
(a) 87 years.
(b) 837 years.
(c) 837 minutes.
(d) 37 minutes.

3. What sound does Milo make when he tries to talk in the Silent Valley?
(a) A buzz.
(b) A tick.
(c) A squeak.
(d) None.

4. What is the one thing the Mathemagician says is easy, though hardly worthwhile?
(a) Being with friends.
(b) Being alone.
(c) Being wrong.
(d) Being write.

5. Who is the man seated at the bottom of the stairs to the Castle in the Air?
(a) The Sound Taker.
(b) The Senses Taker.
(c) The Castle Guard.
(d) The Senile Gentleman.

6. Who brings back a sackful of the sounds that Milo releases?
(a) Dr. Dissonance.
(b) Tock.
(c) Humbug.
(d) Dynne.

7. What number does King Mathemagician show Milo?
(a) Eight.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Nine.

8. Where does the Soundkeeper store the sounds?
(a) In a tower.
(b) In the bedroom.
(c) In the vault.
(d) In the radio.

9. What is it that stops the demons from chasing Milo, Tock, Humbug, Rhyme and Reason in Chapter 19?
(a) The armies of Wisdom.
(b) Dr. Dissonance and Dynne.
(c) King Azaz and the Mathemagician.
(d) Everyone Milo had met along the way.

10. Where does Milo learn the biggest, tallest, shortest, smallest, most and least of everything is kept?
(a) The Island of Numbers.
(b) In the Mathemagician's hat.
(c) Under the box.
(d) The land of Infinity.

11. What do Milo, Tock and Humbug discover in Chapter 13 they will have to do to return to their journey?
(a) Swim.
(b) Skate.
(c) Fly.
(d) Jump.

12. Which of Milo's group doesn't get wet as they return to their car from the island?
(a) Canby.
(b) Milo.
(c) Humbug.
(d) Tock.

13. What saves Milo, Tock and Humbug from the man at the bottom of the stairs in the Castle of the Air?
(a) Laughter.
(b) A demon.
(c) King Azaz.
(d) Rhyme and Reason.

14. What shortcut is Milo shown to the land of Infinity?
(a) A road.
(b) A line.
(c) A river.
(d) Stairs.

15. How does Milo come to know what's happened to make the Silent Valley?
(a) Someone whispers it to Milo.
(b) Milo guesses.
(c) Someone uses sign language to explain it.
(d) Someone writes it on the blackboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound does Dynne make when he cries?

2. What is Milo told he must do to restore sound to the Silent valley?

3. What is the shape of the cloud outside Milo's window the afternoon the tollbooth disappears?

4. How much time has elapsed when Milo arrives home at the end of the book?

5. What does the Mathemagician say is done with the jewels found in the mine?

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