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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 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 is afraid to punish Magda alone
(d) He does not understand all the rules

2. How does the narrator say Ambrose feels about a funhouse?
(a) Ambrose feels fear and confused about the funhouse
(b) Ambrose thinks they are funny
(c) Ambrose thinks funhouses are false
(d) Ambrose thinks funhouses are stupid

3. Why is a conventional narrative pattern used, according to the narrator?
(a) It is what they teach in school
(b) People have learned by trial and error that it works
(c) There is no conventional narrative pattern
(d) The publishers will not buy literature that does not use it

4. What does the narrator say the climax of this story must be?
(a) Ambrose telling Magda he loves her
(b) Ambrose finding his way out of the funhouse
(c) Ambrose getting a kiss from Magda
(d) Ambrose realizing he is a normal young teen

5. What does the old timer at the door tell Ambrose about the tumble-barrel room?
(a) To hold onto Magda so she won’t fall
(b) To stay on the left of Magda so she’ll fall and he can see up her skirt
(c) To look straight ahead to keep his footing
(d) To go crabwise to get an eyeful

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose decide he will do for others because of being lost in the funhouse?

2. What sudden thought scares Ambrose when he calls out to a person he hears walking in the funhouse after Ambrose is lost?

3. How does Ambrose end up with a sore toe in the funhouse?

4. What happened in roller coaster car in the early 1900’s?

5. What does the narrator say Ambrose and Peter’s father never does?

(see the answer key)

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