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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 the narrator say is the manuscript mark for italic type?
(a) Highlighting the text
(b) Putting the text in square parentheses
(c) A straight underline
(d) Backward quotation marks

2. How does the narrator say Ambrose feels about a funhouse?
(a) Ambrose thinks funhouses are stupid
(b) Ambrose thinks funhouses are false
(c) Ambrose thinks they are funny
(d) Ambrose feels fear and confused about the funhouse

3. What are two of the names Peter came up for his future children as a joke?
(a) Apollo and Artemis
(b) Aloysius and Murgatroyd
(c) Adonis and Adelaide
(d) Rocky and Bullwinkle

4. What does Ambrose know he will teach his son?
(a) How to pick up girls
(b) How to ignore the adolescent hormones
(c) How to walk next to a girl
(d) How to fish and softcrab

5. What does the narrator say is the most distinguishing physical feature of Ambrose’s father?
(a) He wears glasses
(b) He is quite fat
(c) He is very tall
(d) He has red hair

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose think will happen when he never comes out of the funhouse?

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

3. What kind of tattoo does Uncle Karl have?

4. How does Magda peel a banana?

5. What does Ambrose imagine happening as he tells stories to himself, alone in the funhouse?

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