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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’s father come up with for Magda and Ambrose’s mother?
(a) Straw hats
(b) Coca-colas
(c) Carmel popcorn
(d) Sunglasses

2. What does Ambrose think about being himself?
(a) He does not know himself so he cannot be it
(b) He is too much like his father
(c) There are other people inside him
(d) He would rather be Peter

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

4. Where does the family always stop for lunch on the way to Ocean City?
(a) At the Two Shoe Diner
(b) At Ambrose’s aunt’s house
(c) At a picnic ground two miles from the ocean
(d) At MacDonald’s

5. Why didn’t Ambrose swim?
(a) He does not want Magda to see his bare chest
(b) He has a pain in his stomach
(c) He forgot his swimsuit
(d) He does not like to swim

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Ambrose do at his Boy Scout initiation ceremony?

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

4. What is wrong with the windows of the fortune telling machine?

5. What is hanging above the old man’s head in the funhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ambrose feel about the Funhouse on the way home, and what does Uncle Karl do about the whole affair?

2. What are Peter and Magda doing while Ambrose is in the Funhouse?

3. What does Ambrose see in his imagination about married life?

4. What is Ambrose’s father doing while Ambrose is in the Funhouse?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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