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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 the narrator say is the manuscript mark for italic type?
(a) Putting the text in square parentheses
(b) Highlighting the text
(c) Backward quotation marks
(d) A straight underline

2. What does Ambrose think sounds like bees droning?
(a) The old man snoring
(b) A noise under the walk where he is standing
(c) An old, black, wall fan
(d) The noise in his head

3. From what point of view does Ambrose narrate the story of his life to himself?
(a) He does not narrate the story of his life
(b) Second person limited
(c) First person point of view
(d) Third person

4. What does the narrator say should be the middle of a story about being lost in a fun house?
(a) The narrator thinks there should be no set beginning, middle and end in a story
(b) The middle should start when the main character gets lost
(c) He does not say what should be in the middle
(d) All the relevant facts between going into the house and getting lost

5. How old is Peter?
(a) It is never said how old Peter is
(b) 15
(c) 16
(d) 14

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose imagine people think when years after he is still lost in the funhouse they find his skeleton?

2. What kind of tree leaves does Ambrose remember from his younger days?

3. Where does Ambrose spy a half dollar?

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

5. Why did Ambrose’s mother put off his baptism?

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