3 Levels Review
Directions: Label the levels of information in each question or statement below.
What is Rashid’s profession?
How is silence beautiful?
Whom does Haroun blame for Rashid’s inability to tell stories?
Why is it significant that Haroun can only say “ark, ark” in chapter 9?
Is there such a thing as complete silence?
Differentiate between Butt the mail carrier, Mr. Buttoo, and Butt the mechanical bird.
What does “Kosh-Mar” translate to in the old tongue?
Why is it significant that the city in chapter one is unnamed?
Where is the collision between the ancient and the modern?
What is the name of Mr. Buttoo’s houseboat?
3 Levels Review
Directions: Label the levels of information in each question or statement below.
Who first says the line “What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true?”
On Mr. Buttoo’s houseboat, Haroun’s bed is in the shape of what animal?
Can anyone ever truly understand mutiny?
In Haroun’s bathroom, what does Iff the Water Genie drop on the floor?
What does the acronym P2C2E stand for?
Where is the line between revealing and concealing?
What is the name of the paternal figure in the novel?
Discuss the similarities between Mr. Sengupta and the Cultmaster.
Who is the spy who has been caught in the Twilight Area?
What is the most important decision of Haroun’s life?
Are benevolent rulers entirely benevolent?
Whom have the people of Chup kidnapped?
Analyze the significance of the Cultmaster turning into a giant monster.
Why is the ocean in the book in grave danger?
What is Blabbermouth, the Page, wearing?
What is significant about how all the Pages are dressed?
Describe Khattum-Shud’s giant idol.
Does the dark have its fascinations?
How does Blabbermouth’s name fit her personality?
How can gender prohibit one from advancing professionally?
How is Khattum-Shud larger than a single character?
Can you ever detach yourself from your shadow?
What language does Mudra, the Shadow Warrior, speak?
Which version of Khattum-Shud do they decide to fight first?
Discuss the meaning of the Old Zone.
What happens when we lose faith in the reality of stories?
How does Haroun know he is standing in front of Khattum-Shud’s shadow?
What causes the balance of darkness and light to come undone?
Why is it important that the books in Mr. Buttoo’s library are fake?