View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lost in the Funhouse.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ambrose fear is the difference between himself and others?
(a) He is insane
(b) He will never become a man
(c) He is socially incompetent
(d) He is not smart

2. What is the name of the character who is advertising the funhouse?
(a) Crazy Lucy
(b) Fat May
(c) Princess Laurel
(d) Aunt Polly

3. What does Ambrose imagine people think when years after he is still lost in the funhouse they find his skeleton?
(a) He must have lived alone since no one came looking for him
(b) He must have been a really stupid person to stay lost
(c) Is that skeleton a real one?
(d) He must be part of the entertainment in the funhouse

4. Why does the narrator call Ambrose’s father a minstrel in reverse that evening?
(a) He pretends to sing on the street corner
(b) He is covered in Noxzema
(c) He carries his guitar across his back
(d) He could not sing but tried to anyway

5. Where in the funhouse can the boys see up the girls’ dresses if they try?
(a) In the room of mirrors
(b) In the tumbling-barrel
(c) Near the end when they hit a super slide
(d) In the walk over the bridge of the dead

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ambrose see under the boardwalk?

2. What does the narrator say is the way to maintain control of one’s voice?

3. What is Magda doing while she leans forward in her seat after spotting the Towers?

4. What does Ambrose decide to do when he hears people in the corridor when he is lost?

5. What does the old timer at the door tell Ambrose about the tumble-barrel room?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 399 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample