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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Ambrose do after he pushes his glasses up on his nose while the family is driving?
(a) Drops his hand on the seat behind Magda
(b) Sneezes
(c) Drops his hand into Magda’s lap
(d) Coughs

6. What does the narrator say is a way to save face if one is lost when one is found?
(a) Start to cry when asked a question
(b) Pretend you were trying to find a lost child you heard crying
(c) Act surprised at the fuss and pretend you were never lost
(d) Say you were chasing a dog who got into the funhouse

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

8. Many of what kind of machines are out of order in the penny arcade?
(a) The pinball machines
(b) The digger machines
(c) The skit bowling machines
(d) The fortune telling machines

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

10. Of what are cigar boxes made in the present time in the story?
(a) Wood
(b) Cigars are not sold in boxes during the war
(c) Pasteboard
(d) Plastic

11. 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 is covered in Noxzema
(c) He could not sing but tried to anyway
(d) He carries his guitar across his back

12. What does Ambrose see under the boardwalk?
(a) A man and a woman having sex
(b) Nothing
(c) Dozens of sand crabs
(d) People in a life raft

13. What does Peter do that makes Magda chase him into the maze room?
(a) Slaps her on the backside
(b) Pinches her backside
(c) Kisses her on the forehead
(d) Pushes his hand under her blouse

14. What was inked into the wood on the cigar box where the label is peeled away?
(a) Best of the best
(b) Inspected by ____
(c) Imported direct to Florida
(d) Made in Cuba

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say about Ambrose’s father’s physical looks?

2. Who sets the price for Magda’s clemency in the game 'niggers and masters'?

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

4. What do most people do when they hear the funhouse character through the loud speakers?

5. What does Uncle Karl keep in the empty cigar box?

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