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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 is at the end of the boardwalk in the future when he comes here with his family?
(a) A monument to his suffering in the funhouse
(b) A sign that talks of his famous writings that began in the funhouse
(c) He imagines seeing the operator’s daughter for the first time
(d) A few derelict amusements

2. In what year is it rumored that the roller coaster was condemned?
(a) 1933
(b) 1927
(c) 1905
(d) 1916

3. What kind of tattoo does Uncle Karl have?
(a) A heart with an arrow through it
(b) A snake wrapped around his biceps
(c) A U.S. flag
(d) A sea anchor

4. Why didn’t Ambrose swim?
(a) He has a pain in his stomach
(b) He forgot his swimsuit
(c) He does not like to swim
(d) He does not want Magda to see his bare chest

5. What does Ambrose see under the boardwalk?
(a) A man and a woman having sex
(b) People in a life raft
(c) Dozens of sand crabs
(d) Nothing

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Peter?

2. What does Ambrose decide the daughter of the funhouse operator, who hears his stories, will think of Ambrose?

3. What did the hurricane of 1933 do to Ocean City?

4. What does Uncle Karl do for a living?

5. What will Ambrose tell his son when his son becomes thirteen years old?

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