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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. What does Ambrose see under the boardwalk?
(a) Dozens of sand crabs
(b) Nothing
(c) People in a life raft
(d) A man and a woman having sex

2. Why is a conventional narrative pattern used, according to the narrator?
(a) People have learned by trial and error that it works
(b) There is no conventional narrative pattern
(c) It is what they teach in school
(d) The publishers will not buy literature that does not use it

3. What does Ambrose imagine his father saying to him about the people on the boardwalk?
(a) They are all here just to have some fun
(b) Nothing is what it looks like
(c) Half of them are probably insane
(d) They are trying to forget the war

4. With what does Ambrose brush Magda’s skirt?
(a) He does not touch Magda’s skirt
(b) A hair on his thumb
(c) His ring finger
(d) His forearm

5. What church does Ambrose try to join when he finds out he is not baptized?
(a) All Saints Episcopal
(b) Grace Methodist
(c) Collins Baptist Church
(d) John Knox Presbyterian

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most people do when they hear the funhouse character through the loud speakers?

2. What kind of car is the family taking to Ocean City?

3. Why did Peter leave the game of Niggers and Masters that he, Ambrose, and Magda were playing?

4. Why does Peter insist they stand by the funhouse?

5. What do the children decide to do instead of enter the funhouse?

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