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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. What does Ambrose imagine doing with his family years after he is lost in the funhouse?
(a) Coming to the seashore with his own family for vacation
(b) Never coming to Ocean City for vacation
(c) Going through the funhouse with him
(d) Reading aloud his account of being lost in the funhouse

2. What does the narrator say is the best thing to do when lost?
(a) Always take the right hand turn
(b) Always travel in the same direction
(c) Stay in one place and holler if necessary
(d) Always mark where you have already walked

3. Why does Ambrose think the funhouse cannot be too scary or dangerous?
(a) That is only his hope, not an actual belief
(b) He has seen children go inside
(c) The owner would go out of business
(d) It is called a funhouse

4. What does the narrator call the diagram that represents conventional dramatic narrative?
(a) A conflict analysis
(b) A plot flowchart
(c) An exposition square
(d) A Freitag’s Triangle

5. What does Ambrose fear is the difference between himself and others?
(a) He is socially incompetent
(b) He is not smart
(c) He will never become a man
(d) He is insane

Short Answer Questions

1. On what does the lady on the cigar box sit?

2. In what situation does the narrator say it is not a good idea for an author to use the first person?

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

4. What happened in roller coaster car in the early 1900’s?

5. What does Ambrose notice about the people going into the funhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the prizes different on the broken machines at the arcade?

2. What does Ambrose do because he is so nervous about going in the Funhouse with Magda and what does the ticket woman say to Magda?

3. What gives Ambrose hope that he will find the exit to the Funhouse?

4. Where does Ambrose go after dinner? What is he looking for and what does he see?

5. Describe Uncle Karl and Peter.

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

7. In which section of the Funhouse does Ambrose take Magda’s arm, and why does he take her arm?

8. How does Ambrose know Magda and Peter have exited the Funhouse?

9. What does the narrator say is the best thing to do when one is lost, and what is the drawback to that action?

10. What does Ambrose think he sees when he steps into the mirror room in the Funhouse?

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