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

2. What church does Ambrose try to join when he finds out he is not baptized?
(a) John Knox Presbyterian
(b) All Saints Episcopal
(c) Collins Baptist Church
(d) Grace Methodist

3. What do the children decide to do instead of enter the funhouse?
(a) Go swimming again
(b) Go to the movies
(c) Eat some junk food
(d) Ride the merry-go-round

4. What does Ambrose imagine his father saying to him about the people on the boardwalk?
(a) They are all here just to have some fun
(b) Half of them are probably insane
(c) Nothing is what it looks like
(d) They are trying to forget the war

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say alternates back and forth in a narrative?

2. What is Magda doing while she leans forward in her seat after spotting the Towers?

3. What kind of voice does Peter use when pledging to be a good boy?

4. What is wrong with the windows of the fortune telling machine?

5. What did Ambrose do at his Boy Scout initiation ceremony?

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