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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 might happen if Ambrose comes across another lost person in the funhouse?
(a) They would help and encourage each other
(b) It would be a girl and she would not like him
(c) It would be an older boy who would laugh at Ambrose
(d) He does not suggest that

2. What did Ambrose feel during Magda enacting her punishment?
(a) He felt like he loved everyone
(b) He could not quit laughing
(c) An odd detachment
(d) Very powerful

3. What does Ambrose know is the strategy for spying the Towers first?
(a) Sit on the left side of the car
(b) Sit on the right side of the car
(c) Sit in the front seat
(d) Look out the driver’s mirror

4. What does Ambrose think he would rather be than a designer of funhouses?
(a) He’d rather write stories about being lost in the funhouse
(b) He’d even rather be a boy scout leader
(c) He does not have any idea what he would rather do
(d) He’d rather be among the lovers for whom they are designed

5. Why is a conventional narrative pattern used, according to the narrator?
(a) It is what they teach in school
(b) The publishers will not buy literature that does not use it
(c) There is no conventional narrative pattern
(d) People have learned by trial and error that it works

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the imaginary torture chamber to which Magda took Ambrose?

2. What does Ambrose wish for at the end of the story?

3. What does Ambrose’s father do with his cigarette when he is finished with it?

4. What does Ambrose think about him being a brother to Peter?

5. What word does the narrator use to describe fiction about the problems of sensitive adolescents?

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