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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 is the emotional age of an adolescent boy compared to a girl?
(a) One year older
(b) They are the same
(c) Three years younger
(d) Two years younger

2. What does Ambrose know he will teach his son?
(a) How to pick up girls
(b) How to walk next to a girl
(c) How to ignore the adolescent hormones
(d) How to fish and softcrab

3. What does Ambrose think is different about himself from others?
(a) He is smarter than anyone he knows, even his father
(b) He is an adult in mind even though he is only 13
(c) He understands more than he should
(d) He has the ability to be a true hero

4. Why does Ambrose think the funhouse cannot be too scary or dangerous?
(a) The owner would go out of business
(b) It is called a funhouse
(c) That is only his hope, not an actual belief
(d) He has seen children go inside

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What example does Ambrose use to show he has more imagination than Peter?

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

4. What does Ambrose wonder after he dozes off when he tries to find the old man?

5. With what does Ambrose brush Magda’s skirt?

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