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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 might happen if Ambrose comes across another lost person in the funhouse?
(a) They would help and encourage each other
(b) It would be a girl and she would not like him
(c) It would be an older boy who would laugh at Ambrose
(d) He does not suggest that

2. Where does the worst of the sun come into the car?
(a) On the left side
(b) In the back window
(c) Through the windshield
(d) On the right side

3. What does Ambrose think is the means by which each room in the funhouse is turned on?
(a) Ambrose does not think about how the funhouse works
(b) They are always on
(c) There are photoelectric devices or operators with peepholes
(d) The customers hit trip wires

4. What scares Ambrose about playing the game Niggers and Masters with Magda without Peter?
(a) Magda does not like to play with only Ambrose
(b) Peter always helps Ambrose cheat
(c) He does not understand all the rules
(d) He is afraid to punish Magda alone

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ambrose know he will teach his son?

3. Why does Magda get angry at the swimming pool?

4. Why does the narrator call Ambrose’s father a minstrel in reverse that evening?

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

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