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

2. Why did Peter leave the game of Niggers and Masters that he, Ambrose, and Magda were playing?
(a) His father wanted him to mow the lawn
(b) He was losing
(c) His girlfriend came over
(d) He had to deliver newspapers

3. What does Ambrose imagine his father saying to him about the people on the boardwalk?
(a) Nothing is what it looks like
(b) They are trying to forget the war
(c) Half of them are probably insane
(d) They are all here just to have some fun

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

5. In Ambrose’s imagination, what does Uncle Karl tease Ambrose about on the drive home from Ocean City?
(a) Getting lost in the funhouse
(b) Finding his way through the funhouse with a blind Negro girl
(c) Running out from under the boardwalk looking terrified
(d) Loosing Magda and the chance to kiss her in the funhouse

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the manuscript mark for italic type?

2. Where does Ambrose spy a half dollar?

3. On what does the lady on the cigar box sit?

4. In his imagination, what does Ambrose have in his mouth when he smiles at his wife?

5. Why does Ambrose keep his hand on the seat behind Magda?

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