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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is wrong with the windows of the fortune telling machine?
(a) Nothing
(b) They are cracked and taped
(c) They are missing
(d) They are fogged over

3. Where does the worst of the sun come into the car?
(a) On the left side
(b) In the back window
(c) Through the windshield
(d) On the right side

4. What did Ambrose try to do when he was baptized?
(a) Swim in the baptismal pond
(b) Bring tears to his eyes
(c) He tried not to cry
(d) He tried not to laugh

5. What does Ambrose notice is missing that causes Ambrose to falter when he is lost in a dark area of the funhouse?
(a) Other people
(b) No doors
(c) No windows
(d) Phorescent arrows and other signs

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

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

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

9. On what is the old man Ambrose sees in the funhouse sitting?
(a) A long, wooden bench
(b) He is sitting on the floor
(c) An armchair
(d) A stool

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

11. What word does the narrator use to describe fiction about the problems of sensitive adolescents?
(a) Interesting
(b) Hackneyed
(c) Boring
(d) Tiresome

12. 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) He drops a live ash on Ambrose’s mother’s leg
(d) The whole head of the cigar falls off onto the car’s floor

13. What literary device does the narrator say diving into the swimming pool could be?
(a) A symbol
(b) A metaphor
(c) A narrative contrivance
(d) Irony

14. What does Ambrose imagine people think when years after he is still lost in the funhouse they find his skeleton?
(a) He must be part of the entertainment in the funhouse
(b) He must have been a really stupid person to stay lost
(c) Is that skeleton a real one?
(d) He must have lived alone since no one came looking for him

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Magda’s rest her right hand while the family is driving to Ocean City?

3. What does Ambrose’s mother say when Magda wins the Towers game?

4. What does Ambrose tell Magda is the reason he is limping?

5. Where is the imaginary torture chamber to which Magda took Ambrose?

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