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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What sets beside the lady on the cigar box?
(a) A stack of books
(b) A flute
(c) A five-stringed lyre
(d) A small bassinette

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

4. What word does the narrator use to describe fiction about the problems of sensitive adolescents?
(a) Tiresome
(b) Boring
(c) Hackneyed
(d) Interesting

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

6. From what point of view does Ambrose narrate the story of his life to himself?
(a) He does not narrate the story of his life
(b) Second person limited
(c) First person point of view
(d) Third person

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

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

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

10. For what does Ambrose think there should be a button?
(a) For ending one’s life quickly and painlessly
(b) For turning on all the lights in the funhouse at one time
(c) For calling the funhouse attendant
(d) A button that would let his father know where Ambrose is located

11. What does Ambrose’s father say about the way his family takes vacations?
(a) It is a sign of the deterioration of American life
(b) It is easier
(c) It is more difficult
(d) It is more interesting

12. What does the narrator say are the two reasons for not writing a story about being lost in a funhouse?
(a) No one actually goes into funhouses anymore
(b) Everyone has felt what Ambrose feels or no normal person feels such things
(c) It would be a boring story with little action or plot
(d) Anyone intelligent enough to buy a ticket would not be stupid enough to get lost

13. What does Ambrose know is the strategy for spying the Towers first?
(a) Look out the driver’s mirror
(b) Sit on the left side of the car
(c) Sit in the front seat
(d) Sit on the right side of the car

14. What church does Ambrose try to join when he finds out he is not baptized?
(a) John Knox Presbyterian
(b) Collins Baptist Church
(c) Grace Methodist
(d) All Saints Episcopal

15. Where does Magda’s rest her right hand while the family is driving to Ocean City?
(a) On the door’s armrest
(b) On her lap
(c) On the back of the front passenger seat
(d) On the seat near Ambrose’s left leg

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uncle Karl do for a living?

2. What kind of tree leaves does Ambrose remember from his younger days?

3. What does Ambrose imagine is at the end of the boardwalk in the future when he comes here with his family?

4. Ambrose thinks everything one sees in Ocean City is preparation and intermission for what?

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

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