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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times a year does Ambrose’s family come to Ocean City?
(a) Three times a year
(b) This is their first time at Ocean City
(c) Once a year
(d) Twice a year

2. What does Ambrose imagine about his work when he is an adult?
(a) It will be something only super intelligent people can do
(b) It will help to save the world
(c) He will be very famous in his line of work
(d) It will be work that will impress Magda

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

4. What does Ambrose fear is the difference between himself and others?
(a) He will never become a man
(b) He is socially incompetent
(c) He is insane
(d) He is not smart

5. What does Ambrose’s father do for a living?
(a) Accountant
(b) School principal
(c) Insurance agent
(d) Banker

6. 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 rocks on its heels and slaps its thighs
(c) It bows and points to the door
(d) It is a statue so it just stands there

7. What does Ambrose think he would rather be than a designer of funhouses?
(a) He does not have any idea what he would rather do
(b) He’d even rather be a boy scout leader
(c) He’d rather be among the lovers for whom they are designed
(d) He’d rather write stories about being lost in the funhouse

8. How does the narrator say Ambrose feels about a funhouse?
(a) Ambrose thinks they are funny
(b) Ambrose feels fear and confused about the funhouse
(c) Ambrose thinks funhouses are false
(d) Ambrose thinks funhouses are stupid

9. What does the narrator say Ambrose and Peter’s father never does?
(a) Disciplines the boys
(b) He never swears in front of the boys
(c) He has never administered corporal punishment
(d) Does not encourage or discourage the boys in their endeavors

10. Where in the funhouse can the boys see up the girls’ dresses if they try?
(a) In the tumbling-barrel
(b) In the room of mirrors
(c) In the walk over the bridge of the dead
(d) Near the end when they hit a super slide

11. What does the narrator say might happen if Ambrose comes across another lost person in the funhouse?
(a) They would help and encourage each other
(b) It would be an older boy who would laugh at Ambrose
(c) It would be a girl and she would not like him
(d) He does not suggest that

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

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

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

15. What does the narrator say is the manuscript mark for italic type?
(a) A straight underline
(b) Putting the text in square parentheses
(c) Backward quotation marks
(d) Highlighting the text

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose decide he will do for others because of being lost in the funhouse?

2. What does Ambrose think is different about himself from others?

3. How does Ambrose see under the boardwalk?

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

5. Why does Ambrose keep his hand on the seat behind Magda?

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