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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Peter?

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

3. What does Ambrose’s mother do for Uncle Karl in the car while they are driving to Ocean City?

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

5. What does the narrator say is the manuscript mark for italic type?

Short Essay Questions

1. What gives Ambrose hope that he will find the exit to the Funhouse?

2. What does Ambrose’s mother give the three teenagers when they reach the boardwalk, and what does she say to them and why?

3. What does the narrator say a Freitag’s Triangle is?

4. What does Ambrose remember about playing the game 'Niggers and Masters' with Peter and Magda when they were younger?

5. What does the narrator say is the best thing to do when one is lost, and what is the drawback to that action?

6. Who does Ambrose think will overhear him telling stories while lost in the Funhouse?

7. How does Ambrose feel about Magda and what is he afraid to do about it?

8. What does Ambrose think about when he is in the mirror room of the Funhouse, and what does Ambrose hear?

9. Why does the family stay out of the ocean, and what do they do instead of swimming in the ocean?

10. What happens as the teenagers are entering the Funhouse?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the protagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Identify the antagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Which secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

The narrator asks at the beginning of Lost in the Funhouse 'for whom is the funhouse fun?' Discuss, in depth, what you believe Ambrose’s response to the above question would be.

Essay Topic 3

When Ambrose is below the boardwalk he hears his family laughing above him. The narrator comments that if Ambrose was not old enough or smart enough to understand the joke he could have said: “The laughter was over his head.” Discuss what the author is attempting to do by including this commentary by the narrator about wordplay.

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