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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the floating boy say will fix the problems of the two cities discussed in Chapter 10?

2. What else, aside from the gift he gives Milo, does King Azaz say Milo needs for the journey?

3. What color is the envelope that comes with the package containing the tollbooth?

4. What does Faintly Macabre instruct Milo to do in order to leave the prison?

5. How much time does Milo give the Spelling Bee to spell the word he has posed to it in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Milo come to realize he got stuck in the Doldrums?

2. As guest of honor at the banquet at the Royal Palace, what does Milo discover he's supposed to do?

3. When Milo and King Azaz are talking, Humbug constantly adds his own comments. Who does the Humbug agree with?

4. Why does Milo decide to buy some words in the Word Market?

5. What happens when the Humbug and Spelling Bee get into a fight?

6. What is Faintly Macabre's response when Milo says he can't leave the prison for six million years?

7. What tasks and tools are given to Tock, Milo and Humbug by the faceless man?

8. Describe the staff carried by the Mathemagician.

9. How does Milo select his first destination?

10. What items are included with the toll booth?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Chroma? What is his role in the world?

Essay Topic 2

What kinds of thing does Milo plan to do when he discovers that the tollbooth is gone? Were those things always available for him to do? Why hadn't he discovered them before?

Essay Topic 3

What is dissonance? What is a din? How do the definitions of these words impact the imagery of Dr. Dissonance and Dynne?

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