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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 the narrator say Ambrose feels about a funhouse?
(a) Ambrose thinks funhouses are stupid
(b) Ambrose feels fear and confused about the funhouse
(c) Ambrose thinks they are funny
(d) Ambrose thinks funhouses are false

2. What does the narrator say about Magda’s physical figure?
(a) It is a trifle heavy
(b) It is well developed for her age
(c) It is still pre-adolescent
(d) It is too skinny

3. How does Ambrose see an old man who reminds him of his grandfather?
(a) Through a small glass porthole
(b) Through an open door
(c) Through a crack in the boards
(d) In a mirror

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

5. Where in the funhouse can the boys see up the girls’ dresses if they try?
(a) In the room of mirrors
(b) Near the end when they hit a super slide
(c) In the walk over the bridge of the dead
(d) In the tumbling-barrel

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Magda’s rest her right hand while the family is driving to Ocean City?

2. What do most people do when they hear the funhouse character through the loud speakers?

3. What does Ambrose think would be the reason the daughter would not rescue him?

4. What does Ambrose wish for at the end of the story?

5. Why does the narrator call Ambrose’s father a minstrel in reverse that evening?

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