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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is a conventional narrative pattern used, according to the narrator?
(a) The publishers will not buy literature that does not use it
(b) People have learned by trial and error that it works
(c) It is what they teach in school
(d) There is no conventional narrative pattern

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

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

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

5. What kind of voice does Peter use when pledging to be a good boy?
(a) A slow, deep voice
(b) He talks in his normal voice
(c) A voice with an English accent
(d) He talks in a falsetto

6. To what does the narrator compare winding parts of the funhouse?
(a) A mouse maze
(b) A slinky toy
(c) A labyrinth
(d) A whelk shell

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

8. Why is Ocean City browned out?
(a) Because of U-boats
(b) In case of air raids
(c) So the place will appear mysterious at night
(d) To save electricity

9. What sudden thought scares Ambrose when he calls out to a person he hears walking in the funhouse after Ambrose is lost?
(a) That it is Peter who will leave him there
(b) That he is just imagining the sound of a person
(c) That it is Magda and she will think he is a coward
(d) That it is a monster

10. Why can’t they locate Ambrose in the funhouse?
(a) He is not in the funhouse
(b) He is hiding
(c) They don’t know where to look
(d) They are not looking for Ambrose

11. What does Ambrose imagine about his work when he is an adult?
(a) It will be work that will impress Magda
(b) It will help to save the world
(c) He will be very famous in his line of work
(d) It will be something only super intelligent people can do

12. What does Uncle Karl say Ambrose’s future family will use to go on vacation?
(a) A moving sidewalk
(b) A train
(c) A subway built underground across America
(d) A flying Autogiros

13. What does Ambrose notice about the people going into the funhouse?
(a) They are all young children
(b) They all hold hands
(c) They are all couples
(d) They are all adults

14. How does Ambrose describe Peter as a person?
(a) Happy-go-lucky
(b) Moody
(c) Arrogant
(d) Shy, but popular

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Ambrose think there should be a button?

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

3. What does Peter do that makes Magda chase him into the maze room?

4. What does Ambrose imagine a woman saying to him when he is grown about his words?

5. Ambrose thinks everything one sees in Ocean City is preparation and intermission for what?

(see the answer keys)

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