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

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

3. What does Ambrose think is different about himself from others?
(a) He understands more than he should
(b) He has the ability to be a true hero
(c) He is smarter than anyone he knows, even his father
(d) He is an adult in mind even though he is only 13

4. What will Ambrose tell his son when his son becomes thirteen years old?
(a) That his first love was Magda
(b) That he never planned to have children
(c) That his son is normal and that everyone goes through it
(d) That he got lost in the funhouse

5. In his imagination, what does Ambrose have in his mouth when he smiles at his wife?
(a) A pipe
(b) A caramel apple
(c) A Lucky Strike cigarette
(d) Cotton candy

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the prizes in the arcade now made?

2. Where do Ambrose and his family live?

3. What are two of the names Peter came up for his future children as a joke?

4. What is on the floor in the hall after the tumble-barrel room?

5. How does Peter get into the swimming pool?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was often done in 19th Century fiction to make a work appear real?

2. How are the teenagers able to get into the Funhouse?

3. Why does the family stay out of the ocean, and what do they do instead of swimming in the ocean?

4. What is one reason the narrator says exists for not writing a lost-in-the-fun-house story?

5. What does Magda win during 'Looking for the Towers', and what does she do with her prize?

6. What kind of machines in the arcade are broken, and why are they sitting there broken?

7. What does Uncle Karl say will change the holiday for the family this year and why has this occured?

8. What is done in Ocean City because of U-boats and how is it done?

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

10. What does Ambrose think about when he is in the mirror room of the Funhouse, and what does Ambrose hear?

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