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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lost in the Funhouse.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Ambrose embarrassed when he hands the funhouse ticket woman money for him and Magda?
(a) He does not have enough money
(b) He is not embarrassed at the entrance
(c) He thinks the woman knows why he is going inside with Magda
(d) He accidentally gives her his name coin

2. What is wrong with the windows of the fortune telling machine?
(a) They are missing
(b) Nothing
(c) They are cracked and taped
(d) They are fogged over

3. What does Ambrose imagine doing if he gets out of the funhouse on his own?
(a) Going to the swimming pool
(b) Strolling up behind his family and pretending he’s been out for hours
(c) Sneaking up on Peter and pushing Peter into the pool
(d) Going to the family car and taking a nap

4. In Ambrose’s imagination, what does Uncle Karl tease Ambrose about on the drive home from Ocean City?
(a) Finding his way through the funhouse with a blind Negro girl
(b) Getting lost in the funhouse
(c) Running out from under the boardwalk looking terrified
(d) Loosing Magda and the chance to kiss her in the funhouse

5. What does Ambrose think will happen when he never comes out of the funhouse?
(a) Peter will marry Magda
(b) Magda will never marry for grief of his death
(c) The police will come and there will be a story in the paper
(d) His father will be very angry

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Peter?

2. What does the narrator say might happen if Ambrose comes across another lost person in the funhouse?

3. What does the narrator say triangulation is?

4. How does the funhouse character in front of the building act?

5. What does the narrator say are the two reasons for not writing a story about being lost in a funhouse?

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