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

2. What kind of voice does Peter use when pledging to be a good boy?
(a) He talks in a falsetto
(b) He talks in his normal voice
(c) A slow, deep voice
(d) A voice with an English accent

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

4. What does Ambrose imagine his father saying to him about the people on the boardwalk?
(a) They are all here just to have some fun
(b) Nothing is what it looks like
(c) Half of them are probably insane
(d) They are trying to forget the war

5. What does Ambrose decide the daughter of the funhouse operator, who hears his stories, will think of Ambrose?
(a) That she hopes he does not decide to write for a living
(b) That he has a truly great imagination
(c) That he must be slightly loony
(d) That he is a strange boy

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ambrose’s mother put off his baptism?

2. What does Ambrose imagine a woman saying to him when he is grown about his words?

3. Why can’t they locate Ambrose in the funhouse?

4. What does the narrator say Independence Day is in America?

5. What does the family decide to do instead of swim in the ocean?

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