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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. How does Peter get into the swimming pool?
(a) He makes a swan dive
(b) He cannonballs into the pool
(c) He goes down the ladder
(d) He lies down at the side and rolls into the water

2. What does Ambrose imagine doing with his family years after he is lost in the funhouse?
(a) Reading aloud his account of being lost in the funhouse
(b) Coming to the seashore with his own family for vacation
(c) Never coming to Ocean City for vacation
(d) Going through the funhouse with him

3. What does the narrator say is the primary function of the middle of a story?
(a) He is uncertain what the function should be
(b) He does not think there is a function to the middle of a story, only the beginning and end.
(c) To delay the climax
(d) The middle of a story contains the climax so the end can finish with the resolution

4. What does the narrator call the diagram that represents conventional dramatic narrative?
(a) A plot flowchart
(b) A conflict analysis
(c) A Freitag’s Triangle
(d) An exposition square

5. On what street does Magda live?
(a) B Street
(b) P Street
(c) L Street
(d) M Street

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose think about being himself?

2. What does the narrator say might provide a foreshadowing of the story’s climax?

3. On what does a machine in the arcade stamp a person’s name?

4. What does the narrator say the climax of this story must be?

5. What will Ambrose tell his son when his son becomes thirteen years old?

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