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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’s mother do for Uncle Karl in the car while they are driving to Ocean City?
(a) Gets the cigar lighter for him
(b) Reads the map for him
(c) Gives him a sandwich to eat
(d) Nothing

2. What is hanging above the old man’s head in the funhouse?
(a) A tapestry
(b) A panel of toggle switches
(c) A war poster
(d) A chain and pulley

3. What does the narrator say is a symptom of nervous tension?
(a) Pacing
(b) Shuffling one’s feet
(c) Violent, repeating yawning
(d) Staring off into the distance

4. Why does Ambrose walk on Magda’s right side when they are on the boardwalk?
(a) To protect her from the street
(b) Because she is left handed and has a box in her left hand
(c) Because Peter is on her left side
(d) To shade her from the sun

5. When Ambrose’s father was a young teen how did his family go on vacation?
(a) They did not take vacations away from home
(b) By train
(c) By car
(d) They usually took a bus

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age are people when the narrator says some people hit their stride?

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

3. What does the narrator say is the emotional age of an adolescent boy compared to a girl?

4. What is one of the reasons the front passenger is protected more from the sun than the driver?

5. What is wrong with the windows of the fortune telling machine?

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