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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Ambrose’s imagination, what does Uncle Karl tease Ambrose about on the drive home from Ocean City?
(a) Running out from under the boardwalk looking terrified
(b) Loosing Magda and the chance to kiss her in the funhouse
(c) Finding his way through the funhouse with a blind Negro girl
(d) Getting lost in the funhouse

2. What does Ambrose wonder after he dozes off when he tries to find the old man?
(a) He wonders how he could have left the room where he saw the man
(b) He wonders if his mother is worried
(c) He wonders if maybe he never entered the funhouse and this is just a dream
(d) He wonders if he imagined the man

3. What does the narrator say triangulation is?
(a) It is when two boys like the same girl
(b) Determining a position using two or more compass bearings
(c) It is a form of homicide
(d) Trying to use at least three different descriptions for a character

4. What is one of the reasons the front passenger is protected more from the sun than the driver?
(a) There is an extra window shade for the side window on the passenger side
(b) The sun visor can be put all the way down
(c) The sun does not come in on that side of the car
(d) The passenger can hang a towel over the window

5. How does the funhouse character in front of the building act?
(a) It rocks on its heels and slaps its thighs
(b) It bows and points to the door
(c) It rolls its eyes, sticks out its tongue and wags its finger
(d) It is a statue so it just stands there

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

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

8. What does the narrator say is an image an author might use when writing a story about Ocean City during World War II?
(a) Sailors on leave playing in the arcades
(b) Sailors pulling their girls under the boardwalk
(c) Patrols on the beach
(d) The oil on the ocean

9. Over what does Ambrose’s mother chide his father?
(a) Driving too fast
(b) Wasting half a cigarette
(c) Not using his turn signal
(d) For missing the turn off

10. What scares Ambrose about playing the game Niggers and Masters with Magda without Peter?
(a) He does not understand all the rules
(b) Peter always helps Ambrose cheat
(c) He is afraid to punish Magda alone
(d) Magda does not like to play with only Ambrose

11. What does Ambrose think is different about himself from others?
(a) He understands more than he should
(b) He has the ability to be a true hero
(c) He is smarter than anyone he knows, even his father
(d) He is an adult in mind even though he is only 13

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

13. What did Ambrose say to Magda in the tool shed after she was done with her punishment?
(a) Ambrose asked Magda to marry him
(b) Peter would be so jealous
(c) Ambrose would never forget that moment
(d) He would never punish her again

14. What does the narrator say the climax of this story must be?
(a) Ambrose finding his way out of the funhouse
(b) Ambrose telling Magda he loves her
(c) Ambrose getting a kiss from Magda
(d) Ambrose realizing he is a normal young teen

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on the floor in the hall after the tumble-barrel room?

2. What does Ambrose think about being himself?

3. Where are the prizes in the arcade now made?

4. What does Peter say is the reason Uncle Karl wants to go to the beach?

5. Where does the family always stop for lunch on the way to Ocean City?

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