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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. With what does Ambrose brush Magda’s skirt?
(a) A hair on his thumb
(b) His forearm
(c) He does not touch Magda’s skirt
(d) His ring finger

2. Why does the narrator call Ambrose’s father a minstrel in reverse that evening?
(a) He could not sing but tried to anyway
(b) He is covered in Noxzema
(c) He carries his guitar across his back
(d) He pretends to sing on the street corner

3. What does Ambrose think a perfect funhouse would contain?
(a) Exits in every room
(b) Only one way to go through it
(c) A lighted trail through it like in the movie theater
(d) That the lights would come one every half hour when a bell rings

4. What is Magda doing while she leans forward in her seat after spotting the Towers?
(a) Resting her head on the back of the front seat so she can nap
(b) Watching the miles go by on the odometer
(c) Playing cow poker
(d) Trying to look at the book that Ambrose’s mother is reading

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. What does Ambrose imagine doing with his family years after he is lost in the funhouse?

2. Where does Uncle Karl tell the children not to go?

3. What does Ambrose imagine his father saying to him about the people on the boardwalk?

4. On what does the lady on the cigar box sit?

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

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