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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. Where are the prizes in the arcade now made?
(a) In America
(b) In Canada
(c) In Australia
(d) In England

2. What does the narrator say giving descriptions with two different senses, such as auditory and visual, can do?
(a) It adds words to the book
(b) It helps the author remember what the characters are doing
(c) It draws the attention away from any narrative contrivances
(d) It orients the reader’s imagination to the scene

3. What does the narrator say is the primary function of the middle of a story?
(a) He is uncertain what the function should be
(b) The middle of a story contains the climax so the end can finish with the resolution
(c) He does not think there is a function to the middle of a story, only the beginning and end.
(d) To delay the climax

4. How much money does Ambrose’s mother give each teenager to spend?
(a) One dollar
(b) Fifty cents
(c) One and a half dollars
(d) Two dollars

5. What does Ambrose’s father come up with for Magda and Ambrose’s mother?
(a) Coca-colas
(b) Straw hats
(c) Sunglasses
(d) Carmel popcorn

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the usual reward for the first person to see the towers?

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

3. What does Ambrose decide the daughter of the funhouse operator, who hears his stories, will think of Ambrose?

4. Where does Uncle Karl tell the children not to go?

5. What does the narrator say is the emotional age of an adolescent boy compared to a girl?

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