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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 Peter insist they stand by the funhouse?
(a) In case someone gives them tickets
(b) So they can hear the laughing
(c) So he can watch the girls’ skirts blow up
(d) So their parents can find them

2. What does the narrator say is the manuscript mark for italic type?
(a) Backward quotation marks
(b) Highlighting the text
(c) Putting the text in square parentheses
(d) A straight underline

3. What does the narrator say Independence Day is in America?
(a) A minor religious holiday
(b) A time to eat hot dogs
(c) The most important secular holiday in America
(d) Just an excuse for a day off work

4. What kind of voice does Peter use when pledging to be a good boy?
(a) He talks in a falsetto
(b) He talks in his normal voice
(c) A slow, deep voice
(d) A voice with an English accent

5. What does Ambrose think about being himself?
(a) There are other people inside him
(b) He is too much like his father
(c) He does not know himself so he cannot be it
(d) He would rather be Peter

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose do after he pushes his glasses up on his nose while the family is driving?

2. What do Peter and Magda do while Ambrose’s father is searching for Ambrose?

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

4. What kind of tree leaves does Ambrose remember from his younger days?

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

(see the answer key)

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