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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. Ambrose thinks everything one sees in Ocean City is preparation and intermission for what?
(a) Sex
(b) Life
(c) Winning the war
(d) Growing up

2. What does the narrator say triangulation is?
(a) It is a form of homicide
(b) Determining a position using two or more compass bearings
(c) Trying to use at least three different descriptions for a character
(d) It is when two boys like the same girl

3. What does Ambrose’s father say about the way his family takes vacations?
(a) It is more interesting
(b) It is easier
(c) It is more difficult
(d) It is a sign of the deterioration of American life

4. Why does Peter insist they stand by the funhouse?
(a) So their parents can find them
(b) So he can watch the girls’ skirts blow up
(c) In case someone gives them tickets
(d) So they can hear the laughing

5. For what does Ambrose think there should be a button?
(a) For calling the funhouse attendant
(b) For ending one’s life quickly and painlessly
(c) A button that would let his father know where Ambrose is located
(d) For turning on all the lights in the funhouse at one time

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ambrose embarrassed when he hands the funhouse ticket woman money for him and Magda?

2. What does Ambrose know is the strategy for spying the Towers first?

3. What does the operator’s daughter drop on the page on which she is writing in response to Ambrose’s suffering?

4. Of what are cigar boxes made in the present time in the story?

5. What does Ambrose’s father come up with for Magda and Ambrose’s mother?

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