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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What novelist does the narrator mention as to how that author describes the sea?
(a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(b) James Joyce
(c) Edgar Allan Poe
(d) George Eliot

3. Why is a conventional narrative pattern used, according to the narrator?
(a) People have learned by trial and error that it works
(b) There is no conventional narrative pattern
(c) It is what they teach in school
(d) The publishers will not buy literature that does not use it

4. On what does the lady on the cigar box sit?
(a) In the sand on the beach
(b) On an armchair
(c) On a bed
(d) On a marble bench

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

6. How does Ambrose describe Peter as a person?
(a) Moody
(b) Shy, but popular
(c) Happy-go-lucky
(d) Arrogant

7. What nickname does Magda use for Ambrose?
(a) Brose
(b) Amy
(c) Amby
(d) Am

8. What is one of the reasons the front passenger is protected more from the sun than the driver?
(a) The passenger can hang a towel over the window
(b) The sun does not come in on that side of the car
(c) There is an extra window shade for the side window on the passenger side
(d) The sun visor can be put all the way down

9. Where do Ambrose and his family live?
(a) Maryland
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) Delaware
(d) Virginia

10. The narrator says italics should be used how often?
(a) They should be used sparingly
(b) Very often to clarify the writing
(c) Never
(d) They should be used on every page

11. What does Ambrose think about him being a brother to Peter?
(a) Ambrose and Peter will never be close friends
(b) Ambrose is a good brother
(c) Peter enjoys having a brother who looks up to him
(d) Peter would be better off with a brother who is normal

12. What does the narrator say might provide a foreshadowing of the story’s climax?
(a) The three children getting lost in the Arcade
(b) What the fortune teller machine would say if Ambrose played it
(c) How Magda takes Peter’s arm in the arcade
(d) The way the clouds cover the sun

13. What does Ambrose wish for at the end of the story?
(a) That the funhouse had never been built
(b) That he was already an adult
(c) That he had never entered the funhouse and that he was dead
(d) That Magda was with him

14. What does Ambrose imagine doing with his family years after he is lost in the funhouse?
(a) Coming to the seashore with his own family for vacation
(b) Reading aloud his account of being lost in the funhouse
(c) Going through the funhouse with him
(d) Never coming to Ocean City for vacation

15. How does the funhouse character in front of the building act?
(a) It bows and points to the door
(b) It is a statue so it just stands there
(c) It rocks on its heels and slaps its thighs
(d) It rolls its eyes, sticks out its tongue and wags its finger

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the narrator use to describe fiction about the problems of sensitive adolescents?

2. What do the children decide to do instead of enter the funhouse?

3. How does Ambrose end up with a sore toe in the funhouse?

4. What is hanging above the old man’s head in the funhouse?

5. What does Ambrose imagine about his work when he is an adult?

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