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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. Where is the imaginary torture chamber to which Magda took Ambrose?
(a) Behind the hedge in the side yard
(b) In the garage
(c) On the front porch
(d) Between the woodshed and the privy

2. What is wrong with the windows of the fortune telling machine?
(a) Nothing
(b) They are cracked and taped
(c) They are fogged over
(d) They are missing

3. What does Ambrose wish for at the end of the story?
(a) That Magda was with him
(b) That the funhouse had never been built
(c) That he had never entered the funhouse and that he was dead
(d) That he was already an adult

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

5. How does Peter get into the swimming pool?
(a) He goes down the ladder
(b) He makes a swan dive
(c) He lies down at the side and rolls into the water
(d) He cannonballs into the pool

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Ambrose warn Magda when he asks her to go through the funhouse with him?

2. What does Ambrose’s father find out from the Coast Guardsman?

3. What does Ambrose finally figure out about his father’s reaction when Ambrose says he is going through the funhouse with Magda?

4. What does the narrator say is the emotional age of an adolescent boy compared to a girl?

5. What does Ambrose think is the means by which each room in the funhouse is turned on?

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