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

2. What does the family decide to do instead of swim in the ocean?
(a) Sunbath and then rinse off in the outdoor showers
(b) Go to the municipal pool
(c) Walk along the beach and look for shells
(d) They are going to swim in the ocean

3. What novelist does the narrator mention as to how that author describes the sea?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe
(b) James Joyce
(c) George Eliot
(d) Nathaniel Hawthorne

4. What does the narrator say a man could do with a mannequin?
(a) Set her up to scare people in the funhouse
(b) Use her as a guard on the bedroom door
(c) Make her look like a gypsy fortune teller
(d) Modify her in certain ways

5. How does Ambrose see an old man who reminds him of his grandfather?
(a) Through an open door
(b) Through a crack in the boards
(c) Through a small glass porthole
(d) In a mirror

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the way to maintain control of one’s voice?

2. When Ambrose’s father was a young teen how did his family go on vacation?

3. What does Ambrose fear is the difference between himself and others?

4. What does Ambrose imagine doing with his family years after he is lost in the funhouse?

5. What does Ambrose notice is missing that causes Ambrose to falter when he is lost in a dark area of the funhouse?

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