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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why didn’t Ambrose swim?
(a) He has a pain in his stomach
(b) He does not want Magda to see his bare chest
(c) He does not like to swim
(d) He forgot his swimsuit

2. Why did Peter leave the game of Niggers and Masters that he, Ambrose, and Magda were playing?
(a) He was losing
(b) He had to deliver newspapers
(c) His girlfriend came over
(d) His father wanted him to mow the lawn

3. What does Ambrose know he will teach his son?
(a) How to pick up girls
(b) How to fish and softcrab
(c) How to walk next to a girl
(d) How to ignore the adolescent hormones

4. What does Ambrose’s father do with his cigarette when he is finished with it?
(a) Gives to Uncle Karl
(b) Throws it out the window
(c) Puts it out in the ashtray
(d) Hands it to his wife

5. Why have Ambrose and his family come to Ocean City?
(a) On vacation
(b) To visit his grandparents
(c) There is a death in the family
(d) To gamble

6. To what does the narrator compare winding parts of the funhouse?
(a) A slinky toy
(b) A whelk shell
(c) A labyrinth
(d) A mouse maze

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

8. What does Ambrose notice about the people going into the funhouse?
(a) They are all adults
(b) They are all young children
(c) They all hold hands
(d) They are all couples

9. How much money does Ambrose’s mother give each teenager to spend?
(a) Two dollars
(b) One and a half dollars
(c) Fifty cents
(d) One dollar

10. What does Ambrose think is the means by which each room in the funhouse is turned on?
(a) There are photoelectric devices or operators with peepholes
(b) The customers hit trip wires
(c) They are always on
(d) Ambrose does not think about how the funhouse works

11. Ambrose thinks everything one sees in Ocean City is preparation and intermission for what?
(a) Winning the war
(b) Life
(c) Sex
(d) Growing up

12. What sudden thought scares Ambrose when he calls out to a person he hears walking in the funhouse after Ambrose is lost?
(a) That it is a monster
(b) That it is Peter who will leave him there
(c) That it is Magda and she will think he is a coward
(d) That he is just imagining the sound of a person

13. What does Ambrose imagine doing if he gets out of the funhouse on his own?
(a) Going to the swimming pool
(b) Going to the family car and taking a nap
(c) Strolling up behind his family and pretending he’s been out for hours
(d) Sneaking up on Peter and pushing Peter into the pool

14. Where does the family always stop for lunch on the way to Ocean City?
(a) At MacDonald’s
(b) At the Two Shoe Diner
(c) At Ambrose’s aunt’s house
(d) At a picnic ground two miles from the ocean

15. Why does Ambrose think the funhouse cannot be too scary or dangerous?
(a) It is called a funhouse
(b) That is only his hope, not an actual belief
(c) He has seen children go inside
(d) The owner would go out of business

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the emotional age of an adolescent boy compared to a girl?

2. What does the narrator say is the primary function of the middle of a story?

3. What does Ambrose’s father say about the way his family takes vacations?

4. Over what does Ambrose’s mother chide his father?

5. Who does the narrator say Peter resembles?

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