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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ambrose see an old man who reminds him of his grandfather?
(a) Through an open door
(b) In a mirror
(c) Through a small glass porthole
(d) Through a crack in the boards

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

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

4. What does the narrator say is the emotional age of an adolescent boy compared to a girl?
(a) One year older
(b) They are the same
(c) Three years younger
(d) Two years younger

5. What does the narrator say could be one way for girls to become well-developed?
(a) Doing the baton
(b) Doing push-ups
(c) Letting a boy kiss her everyday
(d) Rubbing with a Turkish towel

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

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

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

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

10. What does Ambrose’s mother do for Uncle Karl in the car while they are driving to Ocean City?
(a) Nothing
(b) Reads the map for him
(c) Gives him a sandwich to eat
(d) Gets the cigar lighter for him

11. What does the narrator say are the two reasons for not writing a story about being lost in a funhouse?
(a) Everyone has felt what Ambrose feels or no normal person feels such things
(b) It would be a boring story with little action or plot
(c) Anyone intelligent enough to buy a ticket would not be stupid enough to get lost
(d) No one actually goes into funhouses anymore

12. What does the narrator say is the most distinguishing physical feature of Ambrose’s father?
(a) He is quite fat
(b) He is very tall
(c) He has red hair
(d) He wears glasses

13. What does Magda pretend to ignore at the swimming pool?
(a) How other girls look in their swimsuits
(b) Ambrose’s poor swimming
(c) How the swimming suits fit the boys
(d) Peter’s diving

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

15. 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 does not want Ambrose going without Peter
(b) His father is thinking about taking his mother also
(c) His father thought it was humorous
(d) His father wonders if Ambrose knows what goes on in a funhouse

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the operator’s daughter drop on the page on which she is writing in response to Ambrose’s suffering?

2. What does the narrator say might provide a foreshadowing of the story’s climax?

3. What does Ambrose think sounds like bees droning?

4. In what year is it rumored that the roller coaster was condemned?

5. At what age are people when the narrator says some people hit their stride?

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