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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 doing with his family years after he is lost in the funhouse?
(a) Never coming to Ocean City for vacation
(b) Going through the funhouse with him
(c) Reading aloud his account of being lost in the funhouse
(d) Coming to the seashore with his own family for vacation

2. How does Ambrose see under the boardwalk?
(a) With a pocket flashlight
(b) With a lit match
(c) The walk lights leak through the spaces between the boards
(d) With a candle

3. What does the narrator say is irrelevant in a story about a fun house?
(a) Where the fun house is located
(b) How much it costs to enter the fun house
(c) How long it takes standing in line at the fun house
(d) Details about a drive to the fun house

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

5. What does the narrator say are the two reasons for not writing a story about being lost in a funhouse?
(a) Anyone intelligent enough to buy a ticket would not be stupid enough to get lost
(b) No one actually goes into funhouses anymore
(c) It would be a boring story with little action or plot
(d) Everyone has felt what Ambrose feels or no normal person feels such things

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is it rumored that the roller coaster was condemned?

2. What does Ambrose think about being himself?

3. What does Ambrose think is different about himself from others?

4. What does Ambrose think is happening every minute under the Atlantic Ocean?

5. What does Ambrose imagine happening as he tells stories to himself, alone in the funhouse?

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