Cathedral High School // Academic Decathlon // Literature
Attention:
1. Please write your name and school on your
answer sheet.
2. Please write Literature in the Subject space.
Directions:
Chose the best answer for each of the following multiple choice questions
and darken the appropriate space on the scantron answer sheet. You will
receive 1 point for each correct answer. The highest, second highest,
and third highest score will receive a bonus of 20, 10, and 5 points
respectively.
Good Luck!
1. Who is the author of The Phantom Tollbooth?
a. Norton Juster
b. Jules Feiffer
c. Maurice Sendak
d. Lewis Carroll
2. What does Milo see as the “greatest waste of time”?
a. Finding solutions
b. Seeking knowledge
c. Convincing people
d. Justifying answers
3. Which of the following is NOT a way Milo gets out of the Doldrums?
a. Thinking of brass instruments
b. Thinking of numbers ending in 3’s
c. Thinking about fish that fly
d. Thinking of tomorrow’s dinner
4. What answer does Milo use to get into Dictionopolis?
a. “Because”
b. “Sincerely”
c. “Why not?”
d. “Yes!”
5. Where is Digitopolis located?
a. Forest of Sighs
b. Foothills of Confusion
c. Conclusions
d. The Mountains of Ignorance
6. Where does Milo find tock?
a. The Old City of Wisdom
b. The Doldrums
c. Digitopolis
d. The Numbers Mine
7. What is the result of not appointing a new Which to replace the old one?
a. People don’t know which to choose
b. People refrain from using words with double meanings
c. People use too many words
d. People use the wrong words far too often
8. How would Milo describe the first person he met once past the tollbooth?
a. Strange
b. Unusual
c. Queer
d. Peculiar
9. Where do you have to go to, before you get where you are going?
a. Doldrums
b. Expectations
c. Conclusions
d. Wisdom
10. Which kingdom was ruled by the Mathemagician?
a. Dictionopolis
b. Digitopolis
c. Valley of Sound
d. City of Wisdom
11. Where were Rhyme and Reason sent?
a. The Mountain on High
b. The Castle in the Air
c. The Valley of Distopia
d. The Plains of Despair
12. The Doldrums was the ___________ place Milo drives through?
a. First
b. Second
c. Third
d. Fourth
13. What color was the Tollbooth?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Blue
Green
Yellow
Purple
14. Which was NOT a sign contained in the Tollbooth kit?
a. “Slow Down Approaching Tollbooth”
b. “Please Have Fare Ready”
c. “Have Your Destination in Mind”
d. “One Way, Return on the Other Side”
15. Which was Milo NOT accused of?
a. Creating Confusion
b. Upsetting the Applecart
c. Mincing Words
d. Wreaking Havoc
16. What is the “soul of wit”
a. Discernment
b. Intelligence
c. Brevity
d. Deliberation
17. Which of the FIRST place Milo drove through?
a. Conclusions
b. Expectations
c. Delusions
d. Doldrums
18. How does the Mathemagician get to places?
a. Subtract the travel time
b. Count backwards
c. Square the Root
d. Erase and start all over
19. What was Milo’s initial destination?
a. Digitopolis
b. Dictionopolis
c. Conclusions
d. The Mountains of Influence
20. Where do you go when you aren’t thinking?
a. Monotonus
b. Expectations
c. Conclusions
d. Doldrums
21. Who suggested traveling by, “half-inches i’ts quicker”?
a. The Humbug
b. Tock
c. The Sense Taker
d. Milo
22. What did King Azaz tell Milo about his journey?
a. It is impossible
b. It is encouraging
c. It is outrageous
d. It is heroic
23. Which of the following is NOT true?
a. Following was the Alec Bing sees underthings
b. Father looks after things
c. Uncle sees the other side of things
d. Brother sees beyond things
24. Which of the following is related to the word brougham?
a. Conveyance
b. Dissonance
c. Promontory
d. Palatinate
25. Where is Dictionopolis located?
a. Forest of Sighs
b. Foothills of Confusion
c. Conclusions
d. The Mountains of Ignorance
26. What do the directions of the Tollbooth say will be refunded “if you are not
perfectly satisfied”?
a. Your tollbooth fare
b. Your thoughts
c. Your waste of time
d. Your participation
27. How does Milo discover the customs of the two lands his visits?
a. By being arrested
b. Eating a meal
c. Meeting an outcast
d. Reading the newspapers
28. From which of the following does Milo receive a telescope?
a. The sound Keeper
b. The Mathemagiciam
c. King Azaz
d. Alec Bing
29. Which area is caressed by the “gentle breezes from the Sea of Knowledge”
a. Dictionopolis
b. Digitopolis
c. The Mountains of Ignorance
d. The Valley of Sound
30. What was Dictionopolis previously known as?
a. The Land of Plenty
b. The Land of Interest
c. The Land of Desire
d. The Land of Null
31. Which INCORRECTLY matches the person with their meal?
a. Milo:square meal
b. King: Pate de Foie de Gras
c. Officer Shrift: Frankfurters
d. Spelling Bee: Turk-e-y
32. What half-baked idea does the Humbug offer?
a. The Moon is made of green cheese
b. The world is flat
c. It never rains but it pours
d. Night air is bad air
33. How did Milo rise up off the ground?
a. By rising above the disagreement
b. By elevating the conversation
c. By seeing things like an adult
d. By choosing the high road
34. Where did Rhyme and Reason find a basket?
a. Under the tree of infinity
b. Under a bushel
c. Under a rainbow
d. Under a grape arbor
35. Which of the following does Milo NOT choose in the market?
a. Flabbergast
b. Insinuate
c. Quagmire
d. Upholstery
36. Why does Milo choose the words in the market even though he does not know
what they mean?
a. The looked elegant
b. They sounded sophisticated
c. They felt uneven
d. They rested on the tip on his tongue
37. Where was the door to the palace of Dictionopolis located?
a. On the back cover
b. On the brim
c. On the binding
d. On the book jacket
38. Which of the following was NOT a minister?
a. Duke of Delineation
b. Count of Connotation
c. Minister of Meaning
d. Earl of Essence
39. Who said, “using a lot of words to say a little,” make words confusing?
a. The Spelling Bee
b. The Humbug
c. Officer Shrift
d. Tock
40. Who is the demon of petty tasks and wasted effort?
a. Daunting Tasks
b. Procrastinator
c. Terrible Trivium
d. Idle Hands
“...I just hate to be conspicuous; it's really not safe, you know."
41. What does conspicuous mean in the sentence above?
a. Villainous
b. Grotesque
c. Precarious
d. Obvious
42. Who does Milo use laughter to escape from?
a. The Dodecahedron
b. The Demon of Insincerity
c. The Gelatinous Giant
d. The Senses Taker
43. How does an “A” taste?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Tart
Sweet
Bitter
Satisfying
44. Who doesn’t get wet from the Sea of Knowledge?
a. Tock
b. Milo
c. The Humbug
d. The Dynne
45. Who shows Milo Illusions and Reality?
a. Alec Bing
b. The Dodecahedron
c. Faintly Macabre
d. Rhyme and Reason
46. What does the word reticence most closely mean?
a. Nonsense
b. Disdain
c. Clarity
d. Reluctance
47. Who says to Milo, “You must never feel badly about making mistakes, as long as
you take the trouble to learn from them”?
a. Rhyme
b. Reason
c. King Azaz
d. The Mathemagician
48. What time does Milo make the sun rise?
a. 5:13
b. 5:21
c. 5:23
d. 5:33
49. Who does Milo meet in Point of View?
a. Chroma
b. Humbug
c. Dischord
d. Alec Bing
50. Who frightens the people in the Doldrums?
a. Tock
b. The spelling bee
c. The Humbug
d. Faintly Macabre