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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. Why does Ambrose walk on Magda’s right side when they are on the boardwalk?
(a) Because she is left handed and has a box in her left hand
(b) Because Peter is on her left side
(c) To protect her from the street
(d) To shade her from the sun

2. What does the narrator say might provide a foreshadowing of the story’s climax?
(a) What the fortune teller machine would say if Ambrose played it
(b) The way the clouds cover the sun
(c) The three children getting lost in the Arcade
(d) How Magda takes Peter’s arm in the arcade

3. What does Ambrose imagine is at the end of the boardwalk in the future when he comes here with his family?
(a) A monument to his suffering in the funhouse
(b) A sign that talks of his famous writings that began in the funhouse
(c) He imagines seeing the operator’s daughter for the first time
(d) A few derelict amusements

4. Why does Ambrose think the funhouse cannot be too scary or dangerous?
(a) It is called a funhouse
(b) That is only his hope, not an actual belief
(c) He has seen children go inside
(d) The owner would go out of business

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose think about him being a brother to Peter?

2. In what year is it rumored that the roller coaster was condemned?

3. What happens when Uncle Karl taps his cigar out the ventilator window?

4. What happens to Ambrose’s voice if he becomes excited when talking?

5. On what does a machine in the arcade stamp a person’s name?

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