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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 wonder about himself when he thinks of scouting?
(a) Do the boys think he is strange
(b) Will he ever enjoy scouting
(c) Will he ever become a regular person
(d) Will he quit the troop when they go home

2. What does Ambrose decide he will do for others because of being lost in the funhouse?
(a) He will construct funhouses for a living and they will be perfect
(b) He will stand outside the funhouse and tells others how easy it is to get lost
(c) He will go in every funhouse he sees and mark the halls
(d) He will introduce a law banning funhouses

3. What does the narrator say Ambrose and Peter’s father never does?
(a) Does not encourage or discourage the boys in their endeavors
(b) He has never administered corporal punishment
(c) Disciplines the boys
(d) He never swears in front of the boys

4. How much money does Ambrose’s mother give each teenager to spend?
(a) Two dollars
(b) One dollar
(c) One and a half dollars
(d) Fifty cents

5. What does Ambrose decide the daughter of the funhouse operator, who hears his stories, will think of Ambrose?
(a) That he must be slightly loony
(b) That he has a truly great imagination
(c) That she hopes he does not decide to write for a living
(d) That he is a strange boy

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say triangulation is?

2. What does the narrator call the diagram that represents conventional dramatic narrative?

3. On what does a machine in the arcade stamp a person’s name?

4. What word does the narrator use to describe fiction about the problems of sensitive adolescents?

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

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