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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who sets the price for Magda’s clemency in the game 'niggers and masters'?
(a) Ambrose
(b) It is set in the rules of the game
(c) Peter
(d) Magda

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

3. What do most people do when they hear the funhouse character through the loud speakers?
(a) Laugh
(b) Frown
(c) Listen carefully to what it is saying
(d) Stop and stare

4. What does Ambrose tell Magda is the reason he is limping?
(a) His foot fell asleep in the car
(b) He twisted his ankle
(c) He has a pebble in his shoe
(d) He stubbed his toe

5. What is hanging above the old man’s head in the funhouse?
(a) A panel of toggle switches
(b) A war poster
(c) A chain and pulley
(d) A tapestry

6. What does the narrator say Independence Day is in America?
(a) A time to eat hot dogs
(b) The most important secular holiday in America
(c) Just an excuse for a day off work
(d) A minor religious holiday

7. Why might an author in fiction delete a name and use a blank for it?
(a) The author does not want to get sued
(b) The editors prefer to decide on characters’ names
(c) The author cannot decide on a good name for a character
(d) It makes the fiction look real

8. What does the narrator say funhouses need at intervals?
(a) Exit signs
(b) Staff members to help lost people
(c) Male and female restrooms
(d) Bells to ring if one is sick

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

10. Where is the imaginary torture chamber to which Magda took Ambrose?
(a) On the front porch
(b) Behind the hedge in the side yard
(c) Between the woodshed and the privy
(d) In the garage

11. What kind of tattoo does Uncle Karl have?
(a) A heart with an arrow through it
(b) A sea anchor
(c) A snake wrapped around his biceps
(d) A U.S. flag

12. What does Ambrose think will happen when he never comes out of the funhouse?
(a) Peter will marry Magda
(b) Magda will never marry for grief of his death
(c) His father will be very angry
(d) The police will come and there will be a story in the paper

13. Where does Uncle Karl tell the children not to go?
(a) To any casino
(b) To any of the bars that serve liquor
(c) Under the boardwalk
(d) In the ocean

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

15. What does the narrator say could be one way for girls to become well-developed?
(a) Doing push-ups
(b) Letting a boy kiss her everyday
(c) Doing the baton
(d) Rubbing with a Turkish towel

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ambrose think the funhouse cannot be too scary or dangerous?

2. What does Uncle Karl do for a living?

3. What does the narrator say alternates back and forth in a narrative?

4. What example does Ambrose use to show he has more imagination than Peter?

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

(see the answer keys)

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