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

2. What does Ambrose imagine reminding his wife of when he is old and gray?
(a) His youthful passions
(b) How he could not have won a Nobel prize without her
(c) How he has been a success
(d) How his wife is the real force behind his work

3. What does Ambrose’s father do for a living?
(a) Banker
(b) Insurance agent
(c) School principal
(d) Accountant

4. What does the narrator say is an image an author might use when writing a story about Ocean City during World War II?
(a) Sailors pulling their girls under the boardwalk
(b) Patrols on the beach
(c) Sailors on leave playing in the arcades
(d) The oil on the ocean

5. What does Ambrose decide to do when he hears people in the corridor when he is lost?
(a) Travel towards their voices
(b) Bang on the wall
(c) Ignore them
(d) Yell for help

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uncle Karl do for a living?

2. On what does the lady on the cigar box sit?

3. What does Ambrose wonder after he dozes off when he tries to find the old man?

4. How many times a year does Ambrose’s family come to Ocean City?

5. Why does the narrator call Ambrose’s father a minstrel in reverse that evening?

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