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Phantom Toolbooth Review: Chapters 15-16

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    Review of Chapters 15 & 16 in The Phantom Tollbooth
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  • What do the miners in the kingdom eat and how does it make them feel?
    Subtraction Stew - It makes them hungrier.
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  • Name one of the 3 ways that the Mathemagician travels?
    1) erasing everything & beginning again 2) taking the shortest distance between two points 3) multiplying himself
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  • Milo tries to climb the stairs to somewhere at the end of Chapter 15? Where is he trying to go and what happens?
    The Land of Infinity (The stairs go on forever!)
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  • Describe the child that Milo meets on the stairs.
    He's from an "average" family so he's only "half" a child (.58 to be precise).
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  • Why won't the Mathemagician agree to bring back Rhyme and Reason?
    Because he and Azaz haven’t agreed on anything since Rhyme and Reason were banished (And Azaz has agreed to bring them back.)
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  • Name one of the 4 gifts the Dodechahedron gave Milo to take into the Mountains of Ignorance.
    his sights, sounds, words, & a magic staff
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  • Who is the first creature Milo meets on the trail through the Mountains of Ignorance and what is his job?
    The dirty bird. He's the wordsnatcher - takes words out of people's mouths
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  • Name one of the tasks given to Milo, Tock & Humbug by the faceless man.
    1) Move a pile of sand with tweezers 2) Empty a well with an eye dropper 3) Dig a hole in the cliff with a needle
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  • How does Milo convince the Mathemagician to agree to bring back Rhyme & Reason?
    By telling him: “...each of you agrees that he will disagree...and if you both disagree with the same thing then aren’t you agreeing?"
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  • What is the only thing that the Mathemagician says can be easily done?
    To be wrong
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