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

2. How does Ambrose describe Peter as a person?
(a) Happy-go-lucky
(b) Arrogant
(c) Shy, but popular
(d) Moody

3. Why have Ambrose and his family come to Ocean City?
(a) To gamble
(b) On vacation
(c) To visit his grandparents
(d) There is a death in the family

4. What is hanging above the old man’s head in the funhouse?
(a) A panel of toggle switches
(b) A chain and pulley
(c) A tapestry
(d) A war poster

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ambrose try to do when he was baptized?

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

3. What does Peter do that makes Magda chase him into the maze room?

4. Why does Ambrose walk on Magda’s right side when they are on the boardwalk?

5. What did Ambrose feel during Magda enacting her punishment?

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