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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 example does Ambrose use to show he has more imagination than Peter?
(a) Describing a trip to the moon
(b) Talking about life at college in detail
(c) Telling Peter how Magda will look as an adult
(d) Knowing exactly how it will feel to be married

2. How does Ambrose end up with a sore toe in the funhouse?
(a) He stubs it on the wall
(b) A sailor and his girlfriend steps on the toe
(c) Magda jumps on it
(d) Peter accidentally kicks him

3. What was inked into the wood on the cigar box where the label is peeled away?
(a) Best of the best
(b) Inspected by ____
(c) Imported direct to Florida
(d) Made in Cuba

4. What did Ambrose try to do when he was baptized?
(a) Bring tears to his eyes
(b) Swim in the baptismal pond
(c) He tried not to cry
(d) He tried not to laugh

5. In what year is it rumored that the roller coaster was condemned?
(a) 1927
(b) 1916
(c) 1933
(d) 1905

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose’s father do for a living?

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

3. What does the narrator say might happen if Ambrose comes across another lost person in the funhouse?

4. What nickname does Magda use for Ambrose?

5. What did the hurricane of 1933 do to Ocean City?

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