View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Uncle Karl keep in the empty cigar box?
(a) Pictures of famous actresses
(b) Looses screws and bolts
(c) Chisels
(d) Poker chips

2. What is the name of the character who is advertising the funhouse?
(a) Aunt Polly
(b) Fat May
(c) Crazy Lucy
(d) Princess Laurel

3. What did Ambrose do at his Boy Scout initiation ceremony?
(a) Sang the Boy Scout song by himself
(b) Pretended to be moved
(c) Told the leader that he did not like scouting
(d) Fell into the fire and burned his shoes

4. At what age are people when the narrator says some people hit their stride?
(a) When they hit the twenties
(b) After marriage
(c) Around thirty
(d) The middle teens

5. What is on the floor in the hall after the tumble-barrel room?
(a) Strobe lights
(b) Spinning discs
(c) Gooey pink stuff
(d) Water

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose think would be the reason the daughter would not rescue him?

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 family decide to do instead of swim in the ocean?

4. What does the narrator call the diagram that represents conventional dramatic narrative?

5. What does Ambrose imagine doing with his family years after he is lost in the funhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peter do after giving up on his and his Uncle Karl’s play at the pool?

2. Why doesn’t Ambrose ask the person he sees how to get out of the Funhouse, and what happens when Ambrose realizes he is lost?

3. What is Ambrose thinking about asking Magda when they are at the pool, and what does he decide?

4. What is done in Ocean City because of U-boats and how is it done?

5. Why are the prizes different on the broken machines at the arcade?

6. What did the hurricane of 1933 do to the Boardwalk?

7. What does Ambrose see in his imagination about married life?

8. What does Ambrose imagine about his son and what he might say to the boy?

9. Why does Ambrose think people don’t know what to make of him?

10. What is the truth about Magda’s question that Ambrose does not tell her?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 726 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample