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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 the narrator say giving descriptions with two different senses, such as auditory and visual, can do?
(a) It helps the author remember what the characters are doing
(b) It orients the reader’s imagination to the scene
(c) It draws the attention away from any narrative contrivances
(d) It adds words to the book

2. What is one of the reasons the front passenger is protected more from the sun than the driver?
(a) The sun does not come in on that side of the car
(b) The passenger can hang a towel over the window
(c) There is an extra window shade for the side window on the passenger side
(d) The sun visor can be put all the way down

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

4. What does Peter say is the reason Uncle Karl wants to go to the beach?
(a) He likes to surf fish
(b) He likes to watch the women
(c) He likes to body surf
(d) He likes to get a good tan

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Ambrose and Peter’s father never does?

2. What does the narrator say is the way to maintain control of one’s voice?

3. Why can’t they locate Ambrose in the funhouse?

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

5. What did the hurricane of 1933 do to Ocean City?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ambrose do hesitantly to try and find some help while lost in the funhouse?

3. What does Ambrose imagine his father saying to him about getting through the Funhouse?

4. What is a traditional game the family plays when approaching the midway point, and what is the prize for the winner?

5. What does Ambrose remember about playing the game 'Niggers and Masters' with Peter and Magda when they were younger?

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

7. What happens to Ambrose’s father the first day, and what does his father have to do about it?

8. What does the narrator say is the reason a writer should stick with using the Freitag’s Triangle?

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

10. What church does Ambrose’s family belong to, and why is Ambrose different from most other children in the church? Why did it happen?

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