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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Ambrose wonder about himself when he thinks of scouting?
(a) Will he ever become a regular person
(b) Will he quit the troop when they go home
(c) Will he ever enjoy scouting
(d) Do the boys think he is strange

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

5. How old is Peter?
(a) It is never said how old Peter is
(b) 15
(c) 14
(d) 16

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

7. What does Ambrose decide he will do for others because of being lost in the funhouse?
(a) He will construct funhouses for a living and they will be perfect
(b) He will stand outside the funhouse and tells others how easy it is to get lost
(c) He will go in every funhouse he sees and mark the halls
(d) He will introduce a law banning funhouses

8. At what age are people when the narrator says some people hit their stride?
(a) When they hit the twenties
(b) Around thirty
(c) After marriage
(d) The middle teens

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

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

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

12. What does Ambrose imagine his father saying to him about the people on the boardwalk?
(a) Half of them are probably insane
(b) They are trying to forget the war
(c) They are all here just to have some fun
(d) Nothing is what it looks like

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

14. What do the children decide to do instead of enter the funhouse?
(a) Ride the merry-go-round
(b) Go to the movies
(c) Go swimming again
(d) Eat some junk food

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Magda get angry at the swimming pool?

3. What is the name of the character who is advertising the funhouse?

4. What does the narrator say could be one way for girls to become well-developed?

5. Where does Uncle Karl tell the children not to go?

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