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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. Why did Ambrose’s mother put off his baptism?
(a) She wanted him to understand the ceremony
(b) She had just procrastinated
(c) She is not baptized herself
(d) She could not decide what church to use

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

3. What does Ambrose see under the boardwalk?
(a) Dozens of sand crabs
(b) A man and a woman having sex
(c) People in a life raft
(d) Nothing

4. What does the narrator say alternates back and forth in a narrative?
(a) Action and dialogue
(b) Characterization and Description
(c) Exciting parts and boring parts
(d) Dramatization and summarization

5. What does Ambrose imagine about his work when he is an adult?
(a) He will be very famous in his line of work
(b) It will be work that will impress Magda
(c) It will be something only super intelligent people can do
(d) It will help to save the world

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two of the names Peter came up for his future children as a joke?

2. What does Ambrose notice about the people going into the funhouse?

3. What does Ambrose’s father say about the way his family takes vacations?

4. What does Uncle Karl say Ambrose’s future family will use to go on vacation?

5. Where does the worst of the sun come into the car?

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