Question

Read the passage from The Phantom Tollbooth.

"Does everyone here grow the way you do?" puffed Milo when he had caught up.

"Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. "Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that."

"What happens to them?" insisted Milo.

"Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I've heard that they walk among the stars." And with that he skipped off once again toward the waiting woods.

What conclusion can be drawn about how Alec views the people who "walk among the stars"?

He is jealous of them.
He is afraid of them.
He is inspired by them.
He is unimpressed by them.

Answer 1

He is unimpressed by them

Explanation:

• I believe Alec is unimpressed with the people who "walk among the stars".
• Alec seems unimpressed because-

1. He Calls them 'awkward things'.
2. He says that they try their best to discourage such things.
3. He finds it very odd that they grow ten times the average size and look like giants.
4. He doesn't fully believe that the giants walk among the stars.

• Alec doesn't appear jealous because he finds them odd.
• He isn't afraid as they are not harmful.
• He is not inspired by them because he doesn't wish to be like them, he wants to be like the rest.