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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 about Magda’s physical figure?
(a) It is well developed for her age
(b) It is a trifle heavy
(c) It is too skinny
(d) It is still pre-adolescent

2. What does Ambrose imagine doing with his family years after he is lost in the funhouse?
(a) Coming to the seashore with his own family for vacation
(b) Reading aloud his account of being lost in the funhouse
(c) Going through the funhouse with him
(d) Never coming to Ocean City for vacation

3. Where are the electrical towers of the power plant located?
(a) N
(b) T
(c) V
(d) H

4. Of what does Ambrose warn Magda when he asks her to go through the funhouse with him?
(a) That Peter will not be with them as Peter has no money
(b) That he has never been through the funhouse
(c) That he plans to look up her dress
(d) That a kiss will be acceptable payment for spending a quarter on her

5. What does Ambrose think a perfect funhouse would contain?
(a) Exits in every room
(b) Only one way to go through it
(c) That the lights would come one every half hour when a bell rings
(d) A lighted trail through it like in the movie theater

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose imagine people think when years after he is still lost in the funhouse they find his skeleton?

2. What are two of the names Peter came up for his future children as a joke?

3. What is on the floor in the hall after the tumble-barrel room?

4. What novelist does the narrator mention as to how that author describes the sea?

5. What does Uncle Karl keep in the empty cigar box?

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