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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 the narrator say Independence Day is in America?
(a) A time to eat hot dogs
(b) Just an excuse for a day off work
(c) A minor religious holiday
(d) The most important secular holiday in America

2. 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) In the walk over the bridge of the dead
(d) Near the end when they hit a super slide

3. To what does the narrator compare winding parts of the funhouse?
(a) A labyrinth
(b) A slinky toy
(c) A whelk shell
(d) A mouse maze

4. What does Ambrose think about him being a brother to Peter?
(a) Ambrose is a good brother
(b) Peter would be better off with a brother who is normal
(c) Peter enjoys having a brother who looks up to him
(d) Ambrose and Peter will never be close friends

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose’s father do for a living?

2. What novelist does the narrator mention as to how that author describes the sea?

3. What does Ambrose wish for at the end of the story?

4. Where are the electrical towers of the power plant located?

5. Of what does Ambrose warn Magda when he asks her to go through the funhouse with him?

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