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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Uncle Karl do for a living?
(a) Is a school teacher
(b) Works in a munitions factory
(c) Is a masonry contractor
(d) Has a plumbing business

2. Where does the worst of the sun come into the car?
(a) In the back window
(b) On the right side
(c) Through the windshield
(d) On the left side

3. What does the matchbook cover Ambrose’s father has advertise?
(a) The new Sears Roebuck stores
(b) A new casino in Ocean City
(c) Safety during a blackout
(d) U.S. War bonds and stamps

4. What does the narrator say the climax of this story must be?
(a) Ambrose finding his way out of the funhouse
(b) Ambrose realizing he is a normal young teen
(c) Ambrose getting a kiss from Magda
(d) Ambrose telling Magda he loves her

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

6. What does the narrator say is the best thing to do when lost?
(a) Always mark where you have already walked
(b) Stay in one place and holler if necessary
(c) Always take the right hand turn
(d) Always travel in the same direction

7. On what does a machine in the arcade stamp a person’s name?
(a) A tin plate
(b) A white metal coin
(c) A piece of cardboard
(d) A US penny

8. What does Peter say is the reason Uncle Karl wants to go to the beach?
(a) He likes to get a good tan
(b) He likes to body surf
(c) He likes to surf fish
(d) He likes to watch the women

9. What does the narrator say is the primary function of the middle of a story?
(a) He is uncertain what the function should be
(b) To delay the climax
(c) The middle of a story contains the climax so the end can finish with the resolution
(d) He does not think there is a function to the middle of a story, only the beginning and end.

10. What does Ambrose think is a disappointment to eat even though they look good?
(a) Cotton candy on sticks
(b) Candied apples
(c) Funnel cakes
(d) Corn dogs

11. What did the hurricane of 1933 do to Ocean City?
(a) Tore up a section of the boardwalk
(b) Broke the fishing pier in half
(c) Cut an inlet from the ocean to Assawoman Bay
(d) Blew the roof off the arcade

12. Why does the narrator call Ambrose’s father a minstrel in reverse that evening?
(a) He pretends to sing on the street corner
(b) He carries his guitar across his back
(c) He is covered in Noxzema
(d) He could not sing but tried to anyway

13. What does the narrator say is irrelevant in a story about a fun house?
(a) Details about a drive to the fun house
(b) How much it costs to enter the fun house
(c) How long it takes standing in line at the fun house
(d) Where the fun house is located

14. What happens when Uncle Karl taps his cigar out the ventilator window?
(a) He drops a live ash on Ambrose’s mother’s leg
(b) He accidentally drops the cigar out the window
(c) Some of the ashes come back in the car through the back window
(d) The whole head of the cigar falls off onto the car’s floor

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Peter?

2. What does Ambrose fear is the difference between himself and others?

3. Where does Ambrose spy a half dollar?

4. How does the narrator say Ambrose feels about a funhouse?

5. What does the narrator say giving descriptions with two different senses, such as auditory and visual, can do?

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