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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ambrose think will happen when he never comes out of the funhouse?
(a) His father will be very angry
(b) Magda will never marry for grief of his death
(c) The police will come and there will be a story in the paper
(d) Peter will marry Magda

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

3. Why is Ambrose embarrassed when he hands the funhouse ticket woman money for him and Magda?
(a) He does not have enough money
(b) He accidentally gives her his name coin
(c) He is not embarrassed at the entrance
(d) He thinks the woman knows why he is going inside with Magda

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

5. Why does Ambrose walk on Magda’s right side when they are on the boardwalk?
(a) Because Peter is on her left side
(b) To protect her from the street
(c) Because she is left handed and has a box in her left hand
(d) To shade her from the sun

6. Of what does Ambrose warn Magda when he asks her to go through the funhouse with him?
(a) That he has never been through the funhouse
(b) That he plans to look up her dress
(c) That a kiss will be acceptable payment for spending a quarter on her
(d) That Peter will not be with them as Peter has no money

7. What does the narrator suggest may be the name of the bay instead of Assawoman Bay?
(a) Sinepuxent
(b) Oleander Bay
(c) East Bay
(d) Chesapeake Bay

8. What does Ambrose think is happening every minute under the Atlantic Ocean?
(a) Mammals are bearing babies
(b) Millions of animals are eating one another
(c) Fishes are mating
(d) Sharks are swimming with dolphins

9. What does Ambrose decide the daughter of the funhouse operator, who hears his stories, will think of Ambrose?
(a) That she hopes he does not decide to write for a living
(b) That he has a truly great imagination
(c) That he is a strange boy
(d) That he must be slightly loony

10. What does the narrator say Ambrose and Peter’s father never does?
(a) He has never administered corporal punishment
(b) Does not encourage or discourage the boys in their endeavors
(c) Disciplines the boys
(d) He never swears in front of the boys

11. What are two of the names Peter came up for his future children as a joke?
(a) Aloysius and Murgatroyd
(b) Rocky and Bullwinkle
(c) Apollo and Artemis
(d) Adonis and Adelaide

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

13. 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 carries his guitar across his back
(d) He could not sing but tried to anyway

14. Where are the electrical towers of the power plant located?
(a) N
(b) V
(c) H
(d) T

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose do after he pushes his glasses up on his nose while the family is driving?

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

3. What does Ambrose realize when he is the first person through the tumble-barrel room?

4. Why does Peter insist they stand by the funhouse?

5. Of what kind of material are Ambrose’s pants made?

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