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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Magda get angry at the swimming pool?
(a) A boy she does not know accidentally knocks her into the pool
(b) Uncle Karl pushes her into the pool
(c) Peter tries to drag her into the water
(d) Ambrose splashes water in her face

2. What does Ambrose’s father find out from the Coast Guardsman?
(a) The water is spoiled with crude oil
(b) There are no enemy boats off shore
(c) The water is full of jelly fish
(d) The waters are clear of sharks

3. What does Ambrose finally figure out about his father’s reaction when Ambrose says he is going through the funhouse with Magda?
(a) His father wonders if Ambrose knows what goes on in a funhouse
(b) His father thought it was humorous
(c) His father does not want Ambrose going without Peter
(d) His father is thinking about taking his mother also

4. What does the narrator say should be the middle of a story about being lost in a fun house?
(a) He does not say what should be in the middle
(b) The middle should start when the main character gets lost
(c) The narrator thinks there should be no set beginning, middle and end in a story
(d) All the relevant facts between going into the house and getting lost

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

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

7. What example does Ambrose use to show he has more imagination than Peter?
(a) Telling Peter how Magda will look as an adult
(b) Talking about life at college in detail
(c) Knowing exactly how it will feel to be married
(d) Describing a trip to the moon

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

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

10. What did Ambrose do at his Boy Scout initiation ceremony?
(a) Fell into the fire and burned his shoes
(b) Pretended to be moved
(c) Sang the Boy Scout song by himself
(d) Told the leader that he did not like scouting

11. What nickname does Magda use for Ambrose?
(a) Amy
(b) Amby
(c) Brose
(d) Am

12. Where does Ambrose spy a half dollar?
(a) On the sidewalk behind him
(b) In the grass on the side of the sidewalk
(c) Just inside the entrance of the funhouse
(d) In the street

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

14. What does the old timer at the door tell Ambrose about the tumble-barrel room?
(a) To look straight ahead to keep his footing
(b) To stay on the left of Magda so she’ll fall and he can see up her skirt
(c) To hold onto Magda so she won’t fall
(d) To go crabwise to get an eyeful

15. How does Ambrose see under the boardwalk?
(a) With a candle
(b) With a lit match
(c) The walk lights leak through the spaces between the boards
(d) With a pocket flashlight

Short Answer Questions

1. On what is the old man Ambrose sees in the funhouse sitting?

2. What scares Ambrose about playing the game Niggers and Masters with Magda without Peter?

3. Who does the narrator say Peter resembles?

4. What does Ambrose notice about the people going into the funhouse?

5. With what does Ambrose brush Magda’s skirt?

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