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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) He does not touch Magda’s skirt
(c) His ring finger
(d) His forearm

2. Where does the family always stop for lunch on the way to Ocean City?
(a) At a picnic ground two miles from the ocean
(b) At the Two Shoe Diner
(c) At MacDonald’s
(d) At Ambrose’s aunt’s house

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

4. What novelist does the narrator mention as to how that author describes the sea?
(a) George Eliot
(b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(c) Edgar Allan Poe
(d) James Joyce

5. What does Ambrose’s father find out from the Coast Guardsman?
(a) The water is full of jelly fish
(b) The waters are clear of sharks
(c) There are no enemy boats off shore
(d) The water is spoiled with crude oil

Short Answer Questions

1. What sudden thought scares Ambrose when he calls out to a person he hears walking in the funhouse after Ambrose is lost?

2. What does Ambrose think about being himself?

3. What does the narrator say giving descriptions with two different senses, such as auditory and visual, can do?

4. What does the narrator say funhouses need at intervals?

5. What does Ambrose’s father say about the way his family takes vacations?

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