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'Phantom Tollbooth' Trivia Quiz

This is a fairly easy (not really) quiz if you've read the book. If you haven't I suggest you do right now or you'll be missing out! The book is so good I have no words to describe it. By the way, the authors name is Norton Juster.

A multiple-choice quiz by LotsofHomework. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
LotsofHomework

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
49,577

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
660

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. How do you get out of DOLDRUMS? Hint

by flying

by dreaming

by thinking

by running

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Question 2 of 10

2. What's Tock, the watchdog's brother's name?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 3 of 10

3. What are the names of the princesses?

Answer: (Three Words (including and))

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Question 4 of 10

4. What was Milo's excuse for getting into Dictionopolis?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who is the awful DYNNE(Din)'s grandfather? Hint

The Dreadful Rand

The Dreadful Warrior

The Dreadful Waru

The Dreadful RAUW

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Question 6 of 10

6. How do you get to the island of Conclusions? Hint

riding the humbug

by swimming

by jumping

riding Tock

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which way leads to Digitopolis? Hint

5 miles

none of them do

26,400 feet

633,600 half inches

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Question 8 of 10

8. What did they use to beat the Terrible Trivium? Hint

AZAZ's words

magic staff

telescope

box of sounds

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Question 9 of 10

9. What was the thing that AZAZ and the Mathematician wanted to say to Milo that had to wait until he finished his Quest? Hint

that words and numbers are equally the same

that Milo gets to keep Tock

that Milo really shouldn't be bored

That it was impossible

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Question 10 of 10

10. When Milo leaves the Phantom Tollbooth, does he return? Hint

doesn't go home

Yes

I don't know

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. How do you get out of DOLDRUMS?

Answer: by thinking

Lethargarian's schedule: 'At 8 o' clock we get up, and then we spend from 8 to 9 daydreaming. From 9 to 9:30 we take our early midmorning nap.From 9:30 to 10:30 we dawdle and deyle. From 10:30 to 11:30 we take our late early morning nap.From 11:30 to 12:00 we bide our time and then eat lunch...' Need I say any more? DOLDRUMS is a boring place to be...

2. What's Tock, the watchdog's brother's name?

Answer: Tick

Tock goes tick-tick-tick and is named Tock and Tick goes tock-tock-tock and is named tick.

3. What are the names of the princesses?

Answer: Rhyme and Reason

Um... not much to say but they're the ones Milo and his friends save.

4. What was Milo's excuse for getting into Dictionopolis?

Answer: Why Not?

5. Who is the awful DYNNE(Din)'s grandfather?

Answer: The Dreadful RAUW

He perished in the great silence epidemic of 1712.

6. How do you get to the island of Conclusions?

Answer: by jumping

HA HA HA, riding the humbug, classic.

7. Which way leads to Digitopolis?

Answer: none of them do

8. What did they use to beat the Terrible Trivium?

Answer: magic staff

Milo had to transport grain over with tweezers. Tock had to move water from a bucket to a well with an eye dropper. Finally the humbug had to dig a hole with a needle. Impossible tasks.

9. What was the thing that AZAZ and the Mathematician wanted to say to Milo that had to wait until he finished his Quest?

Answer: That it was impossible

...'but if we've told you then, you might not have gone and as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.'

10. When Milo leaves the Phantom Tollbooth, does he return?

Answer: No

This was the best book ever!

Source: Author LotsofHomework

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