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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’s mother do for Uncle Karl in the car while they are driving to Ocean City?
(a) Nothing
(b) Reads the map for him
(c) Gets the cigar lighter for him
(d) Gives him a sandwich to eat

2. What does Ambrose’s father find out from the Coast Guardsman?
(a) The waters are clear of sharks
(b) The water is spoiled with crude oil
(c) The water is full of jelly fish
(d) There are no enemy boats off shore

3. What word does the narrator use to describe fiction about the problems of sensitive adolescents?
(a) Tiresome
(b) Hackneyed
(c) Interesting
(d) Boring

4. For what does Ambrose think there should be a button?
(a) For turning on all the lights in the funhouse at one time
(b) For calling the funhouse attendant
(c) A button that would let his father know where Ambrose is located
(d) For ending one’s life quickly and painlessly

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peter say is the reason Uncle Karl wants to go to the beach?

2. Where is the imaginary torture chamber to which Magda took Ambrose?

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

4. In Ambrose’s imagination, what does Uncle Karl tease Ambrose about on the drive home from Ocean City?

5. What is wrong with the windows of the fortune telling machine?

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