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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 say when Magda wins the Towers game?
(a) Magda won because someone has a girlfriend
(b) Magda has better eyes than her sons
(c) Females will always win over the males
(d) She does not get a prize because she is not a member of the family

2. What does the narrator say alternates back and forth in a narrative?
(a) Dramatization and summarization
(b) Action and dialogue
(c) Exciting parts and boring parts
(d) Characterization and Description

3. What does Ambrose decide to do when he hears people in the corridor when he is lost?
(a) Yell for help
(b) Ignore them
(c) Bang on the wall
(d) Travel towards their voices

4. Ambrose thinks everything one sees in Ocean City is preparation and intermission for what?
(a) Winning the war
(b) Sex
(c) Growing up
(d) Life

5. What does the narrator call the diagram that represents conventional dramatic narrative?
(a) A Freitag’s Triangle
(b) An exposition square
(c) A plot flowchart
(d) A conflict analysis

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most people do when they hear the funhouse character through the loud speakers?

2. What scares Ambrose about playing the game Niggers and Masters with Magda without Peter?

3. What does the narrator suggest may be the name of the bay instead of Assawoman Bay?

4. What does Ambrose wish for at the end of the story?

5. What did the hurricane of 1933 do to Ocean City?

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