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

2. Where does the worst of the sun come into the car?
(a) Through the windshield
(b) On the right side
(c) On the left side
(d) In the back window

3. 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 on leave playing in the arcades
(c) Sailors pulling their girls under the boardwalk
(d) The oil on the ocean

4. What does the narrator say to count a generation in years?
(a) Twenty years
(b) Thirty-five years
(c) Thirty years
(d) Twenty-five years

5. What does Ambrose wonder after he dozes off when he tries to find the old man?
(a) He wonders if he imagined the man
(b) He wonders if maybe he never entered the funhouse and this is just a dream
(c) He wonders if his mother is worried
(d) He wonders how he could have left the room where he saw the man

Short Answer Questions

1. On what street does Magda live?

2. What does Ambrose wonder about himself when he thinks of scouting?

3. Why didn’t Ambrose swim?

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

5. What does Ambrose’s father do for a living?

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