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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 Uncle Karl keep in the empty cigar box?
(a) Looses screws and bolts
(b) Pictures of famous actresses
(c) Chisels
(d) Poker chips

2. Where does Ambrose spy a half dollar?
(a) In the street
(b) Just inside the entrance of the funhouse
(c) On the sidewalk behind him
(d) In the grass on the side of the sidewalk

3. Why did Ambrose’s mother put off his baptism?
(a) She is not baptized herself
(b) She had just procrastinated
(c) She wanted him to understand the ceremony
(d) She could not decide what church to use

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

5. Why have Ambrose and his family come to Ocean City?
(a) On vacation
(b) To visit his grandparents
(c) To gamble
(d) There is a death in the family

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ambrose think the funhouse cannot be too scary or dangerous?

2. What does Ambrose think a perfect funhouse would contain?

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

4. What does the narrator say to count a generation in years?

5. What does Ambrose’s father come up with for Magda and Ambrose’s mother?

(see the answer key)

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