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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. Who sets the price for Magda’s clemency in the game 'niggers and masters'?
(a) Magda
(b) Ambrose
(c) It is set in the rules of the game
(d) Peter

2. What literary device does the narrator say diving into the swimming pool could be?
(a) A symbol
(b) A narrative contrivance
(c) A metaphor
(d) Irony

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

4. What does the narrator say might happen if Ambrose comes across another lost person in the funhouse?
(a) He does not suggest that
(b) It would be an older boy who would laugh at Ambrose
(c) It would be a girl and she would not like him
(d) They would help and encourage each other

5. What does Ambrose’s father do for a living?
(a) Insurance agent
(b) Accountant
(c) Banker
(d) School principal

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ambrose notice is missing that causes Ambrose to falter when he is lost in a dark area of the funhouse?

3. What does the narrator say is irrelevant in a story about a fun house?

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

5. What does the narrator say is a way to save face if one is lost when one is found?

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