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 happens to Ambrose’s voice if he becomes excited when talking?
(a) It becomes high-pitched
(b) It deepens
(c) It becomes whispery
(d) Nothing

2. What does the matchbook cover Ambrose’s father has advertise?
(a) Safety during a blackout
(b) The new Sears Roebuck stores
(c) A new casino in Ocean City
(d) U.S. War bonds and stamps

3. Why is a conventional narrative pattern used, according to the narrator?
(a) There is no conventional narrative pattern
(b) The publishers will not buy literature that does not use it
(c) It is what they teach in school
(d) People have learned by trial and error that it works

4. 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) Loosing Magda and the chance to kiss her in the funhouse
(c) Finding his way through the funhouse with a blind Negro girl
(d) Running out from under the boardwalk looking terrified

5. What does Ambrose notice about the people going into the funhouse?
(a) They all hold hands
(b) They are all young children
(c) They are all couples
(d) They are all adults

Short Answer Questions

1. What sets beside the lady on the cigar box?

2. What did Ambrose say to Magda in the tool shed after she was done with her punishment?

3. How does Ambrose describe Peter as a person?

4. What does Ambrose know is the strategy for spying the Towers first?

5. What sudden thought scares Ambrose when he calls out to a person he hears walking in the funhouse after Ambrose is lost?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 350 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample