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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. Many of what kind of machines are out of order in the penny arcade?
(a) The digger machines
(b) The skit bowling machines
(c) The fortune telling machines
(d) The pinball machines

2. What does Ambrose imagine happening as he tells stories to himself, alone in the funhouse?
(a) That he will become a great writer and win a Nobel prize in literature
(b) That the police hear him and bring him out of the funhouse
(c) That his voice will get more and more quiet until he is finally whispering
(d) That an operator hears him and writes down every word

3. What does Ambrose think will happen when he never comes out of the funhouse?
(a) Peter will marry Magda
(b) Magda will never marry for grief of his death
(c) His father will be very angry
(d) The police will come and there will be a story in the paper

4. What does the narrator say is the most distinguishing physical feature of Ambrose’s father?
(a) He is quite fat
(b) He wears glasses
(c) He is very tall
(d) He has red hair

5. Where does Uncle Karl tell the children not to go?
(a) To any casino
(b) In the ocean
(c) Under the boardwalk
(d) To any of the bars that serve liquor

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is irrelevant in a story about a fun house?

2. With what does Ambrose brush Magda’s skirt?

3. What church does Ambrose try to join when he finds out he is not baptized?

4. What does the narrator say giving descriptions with two different senses, such as auditory and visual, can do?

5. In what situation does the narrator say it is not a good idea for an author to use the first person?

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