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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. Where does Ambrose spy a half dollar?
(a) Just inside the entrance of the funhouse
(b) In the grass on the side of the sidewalk
(c) On the sidewalk behind him
(d) In the street

2. How much money does Ambrose’s mother give each teenager to spend?
(a) One dollar
(b) One and a half dollars
(c) Fifty cents
(d) Two dollars

3. What does the narrator say the climax of this story must be?
(a) Ambrose getting a kiss from Magda
(b) Ambrose realizing he is a normal young teen
(c) Ambrose telling Magda he loves her
(d) Ambrose finding his way out of the funhouse

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

5. What does Ambrose imagine people think when years after he is still lost in the funhouse they find his skeleton?
(a) Is that skeleton a real one?
(b) He must have been a really stupid person to stay lost
(c) He must be part of the entertainment in the funhouse
(d) He must have lived alone since no one came looking for him

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare winding parts of the funhouse?

2. What does Ambrose imagine happening as he tells stories to himself, alone in the funhouse?

3. What does Ambrose imagine doing with his family years after he is lost in the funhouse?

4. What does Ambrose think would be the reason the daughter would not rescue him?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Peter and Uncle Karl try at the pool, and how does Ambrose’s mother react to their behavior? How is Ambrose involved in the situation?

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

4. Describe Uncle Karl and Peter.

5. What advertises the funhouse that the family stares at, and what does Peter suggests when they are looking at it? What does Ambrose suggest?

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

7. Why do the teenagers return to the Funhouse when their money runs out?

8. Who is in the car with Ambrose driving to Ocean City?

9. What is Ambrose thinking about asking Magda when they are at the pool, and what does he decide?

10. When thoroughly lost, what does Ambrose imagine happens to him in the Funhouse?

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