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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 did the hurricane of 1933 do to Ocean City?
(a) Cut an inlet from the ocean to Assawoman Bay
(b) Tore up a section of the boardwalk
(c) Blew the roof off the arcade
(d) Broke the fishing pier in half

2. What novelist does the narrator mention as to how that author describes the sea?
(a) James Joyce
(b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(c) George Eliot
(d) Edgar Allan Poe

3. What are two of the names Peter came up for his future children as a joke?
(a) Adonis and Adelaide
(b) Rocky and Bullwinkle
(c) Apollo and Artemis
(d) Aloysius and Murgatroyd

4. What is the most difficult part of riding the carousel only once?
(a) Choosing a mount
(b) Not getting a horse near Magda
(c) Not falling off
(d) Coming up with the ticket price

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Peter leave the game of Niggers and Masters that he, Ambrose, and Magda were playing?

2. On what is the old man Ambrose sees in the funhouse sitting?

3. What church does Ambrose try to join when he finds out he is not baptized?

4. What does the narrator say alternates back and forth in a narrative?

5. What is Uncle Karl told is the reason there will be no fireworks that night?

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