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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 Uncle Karl say Ambrose’s future family will use to go on vacation?
(a) A train
(b) A subway built underground across America
(c) A flying Autogiros
(d) A moving sidewalk

2. What did the hurricane of 1933 do to Ocean City?
(a) Blew the roof off the arcade
(b) Broke the fishing pier in half
(c) Cut an inlet from the ocean to Assawoman Bay
(d) Tore up a section of the boardwalk

3. What did Ambrose feel during Magda enacting her punishment?
(a) An odd detachment
(b) He felt like he loved everyone
(c) Very powerful
(d) He could not quit laughing

4. What did Ambrose do at his Boy Scout initiation ceremony?
(a) Fell into the fire and burned his shoes
(b) Sang the Boy Scout song by himself
(c) Pretended to be moved
(d) Told the leader that he did not like scouting

5. What does Ambrose think is happening every minute under the Atlantic Ocean?
(a) Fishes are mating
(b) Mammals are bearing babies
(c) Sharks are swimming with dolphins
(d) Millions of animals are eating one another

Short Answer Questions

1. Why have Ambrose and his family come to Ocean City?

2. How does the narrator say Ambrose feels about a funhouse?

3. What does Ambrose notice is missing that causes Ambrose to falter when he is lost in a dark area of the funhouse?

4. What does Ambrose’s mother say when Magda wins the Towers game?

5. What does Ambrose imagine about his work when he is an adult?

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