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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Ambrose’s mother put off his baptism?
(a) She could not decide what church to use
(b) She is not baptized herself
(c) She wanted him to understand the ceremony
(d) She had just procrastinated

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

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

4. What does Ambrose wonder after he dozes off when he tries to find the old man?
(a) He wonders if he imagined the man
(b) He wonders if maybe he never entered the funhouse and this is just a dream
(c) He wonders if his mother is worried
(d) He wonders how he could have left the room where he saw the man

5. What is the usual reward for the first person to see the towers?
(a) Being allowed to ride in the front seat for the last two miles
(b) Getting to go into the ocean first
(c) A picture of the beach with the family’s camera
(d) A piece of candy or fruit

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ambrose feel during Magda enacting her punishment?

2. Why does the narrator call Ambrose’s father a minstrel in reverse that evening?

3. Many of what kind of machines are out of order in the penny arcade?

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

5. What will Ambrose tell his son when his son becomes thirteen years old?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as the teenagers are entering the Funhouse?

2. What does the narrator say is the function of the beginning of a story?

3. What did the hurricane of 1933 do to the Boardwalk?

4. What does Ambrose imagine about his son and what he might say to the boy?

5. What does Ambrose’s mother give the three teenagers when they reach the boardwalk, and what does she say to them and why?

6. What does the Gypsy Fortune Teller machine look like?

7. What does Ambrose decide is the whole point of being in Ocean City, and how does he see Ocean City when he figures this out?

8. How does Ambrose feel after what he sees at the boardwalk, and what does he want to do? What comment does Magda make about Ambrose’s condition?

9. What does Peter do when everyone falls to the floor, and how does Magda react to Peter’s behavior?

10. What does Peter do after giving up on his and his Uncle Karl’s play at the pool?

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