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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 funhouses need at intervals?
(a) Male and female restrooms
(b) Exit signs
(c) Bells to ring if one is sick
(d) Staff members to help lost people

2. What does the narrator say is an image an author might use when writing a story about Ocean City during World War II?
(a) Patrols on the beach
(b) Sailors pulling their girls under the boardwalk
(c) Sailors on leave playing in the arcades
(d) The oil on the ocean

3. On what does the lady on the cigar box sit?
(a) On a marble bench
(b) On an armchair
(c) In the sand on the beach
(d) On a bed

4. What does the narrator say a man could do with a mannequin?
(a) Use her as a guard on the bedroom door
(b) Make her look like a gypsy fortune teller
(c) Set her up to scare people in the funhouse
(d) Modify her in certain ways

5. What does the narrator say should be the middle of a story about being lost in a fun house?
(a) He does not say what should be in the middle
(b) The middle should start when the main character gets lost
(c) The narrator thinks there should be no set beginning, middle and end in a story
(d) All the relevant facts between going into the house and getting lost

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose imagine happening as he tells stories to himself, alone in the funhouse?

2. What does Uncle Karl say Ambrose’s future family will use to go on vacation?

3. In what situation does the narrator say it is not a good idea for an author to use the first person?

4. What does Ambrose’s mother do for Uncle Karl in the car while they are driving to Ocean City?

5. What does Peter say is the reason Uncle Karl wants to go to the beach?

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