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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. Over what does Ambrose’s mother chide his father?
(a) Driving too fast
(b) Not using his turn signal
(c) Wasting half a cigarette
(d) For missing the turn off

2. What does Ambrose imagine happening as he tells stories to himself, alone in the funhouse?
(a) That the police hear him and bring him out of the funhouse
(b) That his voice will get more and more quiet until he is finally whispering
(c) That an operator hears him and writes down every word
(d) That he will become a great writer and win a Nobel prize in literature

3. Of what are cigar boxes made in the present time in the story?
(a) Pasteboard
(b) Wood
(c) Plastic
(d) Cigars are not sold in boxes during the war

4. What does the narrator say is the way to maintain control of one’s voice?
(a) Speak very quickly
(b) Talking soberly and listening consciously to your voice
(c) Speak in as deep a voice as possible
(d) Watch other people’s lips and follow their lead

5. What is Magda doing while she leans forward in her seat after spotting the Towers?
(a) Watching the miles go by on the odometer
(b) Playing cow poker
(c) Trying to look at the book that Ambrose’s mother is reading
(d) Resting her head on the back of the front seat so she can nap

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Magda peel a banana?

2. What does the narrator say triangulation is?

3. What did Ambrose say to Magda in the tool shed after she was done with her punishment?

4. Where are the prizes in the arcade now made?

5. What does the narrator say might happen if Ambrose comes across another lost person in the funhouse?

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