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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 sets beside the lady on the cigar box?
(a) A small bassinette
(b) A stack of books
(c) A five-stringed lyre
(d) A flute

2. What does Ambrose wonder about himself when he thinks of scouting?
(a) Will he quit the troop when they go home
(b) Do the boys think he is strange
(c) Will he ever become a regular person
(d) Will he ever enjoy scouting

3. What does Ambrose know is the strategy for spying the Towers first?
(a) Look out the driver’s mirror
(b) Sit in the front seat
(c) Sit on the right side of the car
(d) Sit on the left side of the car

4. What does Ambrose’s father do with his cigarette when he is finished with it?
(a) Gives to Uncle Karl
(b) Hands it to his wife
(c) Puts it out in the ashtray
(d) Throws it out the window

5. What does Ambrose think he would rather be than a designer of funhouses?
(a) He’d even rather be a boy scout leader
(b) He does not have any idea what he would rather do
(c) He’d rather write stories about being lost in the funhouse
(d) He’d rather be among the lovers for whom they are designed

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose think about being himself?

2. What does the narrator say is a way to save face if one is lost when one is found?

3. Where are the electrical towers of the power plant located?

4. What does Ambrose decide to do when he hears people in the corridor when he is lost?

5. Why might an author in fiction delete a name and use a blank for it?

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