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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 does Uncle Karl do for a living?
(a) Is a masonry contractor
(b) Has a plumbing business
(c) Works in a munitions factory
(d) Is a school teacher

2. Why does Ambrose go under the boardwalk?
(a) To steal a kiss from Magda
(b) To see if anyone is under there making out
(c) To look for shells
(d) To look for match books

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

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

5. Why does Ambrose think the funhouse cannot be too scary or dangerous?
(a) It is called a funhouse
(b) That is only his hope, not an actual belief
(c) The owner would go out of business
(d) He has seen children go inside

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say should be the middle of a story about being lost in a fun house?

2. What happens to Ambrose’s voice if he becomes excited when talking?

3. What does Ambrose finally figure out about his father’s reaction when Ambrose says he is going through the funhouse with Magda?

4. What does Magda pretend to ignore at the swimming pool?

5. Why didn’t Ambrose swim?

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