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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 much money does Ambrose’s mother give each teenager to spend?

2. At what age are people when the narrator says some people hit their stride?

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

4. What is on the floor in the hall after the tumble-barrel room?

5. What does Ambrose think a perfect funhouse would contain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ambrose do after Magda and Peter leave the Funhouse?

2. What does the narrator say is the reason a writer should stick with using the Freitag’s Triangle?

3. What is Ambrose’s father doing while Ambrose is in the Funhouse?

4. What does Ambrose do hesitantly to try and find some help while lost in the funhouse?

5. How are the teenagers able to get into the Funhouse?

6. What do Peter and Uncle Karl try at the pool, and how does Ambrose’s mother react to their behavior? How is Ambrose involved in the situation?

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

8. How does Ambrose feel after what he sees at the boardwalk, and what does he want to do? What comment does Magda make about Ambrose’s condition?

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

10. Describe Uncle Karl and Peter.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven or action driven? Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why? Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character are developed to the same degree? Why or why not? What type of plot do you think Lost in the Funhouse is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

Ambrose declares that a person thinks he is himself but there are other people within everyone. Discuss what you think Ambrose means by this statement. Do you agree with him? Why or why not?

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