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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 Magda’s rest her right hand while the family is driving to Ocean City?
(a) On the back of the front passenger seat
(b) On the seat near Ambrose’s left leg
(c) On the door’s armrest
(d) On her lap

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

3. Why is a conventional narrative pattern used, according to the narrator?
(a) The publishers will not buy literature that does not use it
(b) People have learned by trial and error that it works
(c) It is what they teach in school
(d) There is no conventional narrative pattern

4. Why does Ambrose walk on Magda’s right side when they are on the boardwalk?
(a) To protect her from the street
(b) Because she is left handed and has a box in her left hand
(c) Because Peter is on her left side
(d) To shade her from the sun

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what are cigar boxes made in the present time in the story?

2. What does Uncle Karl do for a living?

3. What does Ambrose’s mother say when Magda wins the Towers game?

4. In his imagination, what does Ambrose have in his mouth when he smiles at his wife?

5. What does Ambrose think is happening every minute under the Atlantic Ocean?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Ambrose imagine about his son and what he might say to the boy?

8. What happens as the teenagers are entering the Funhouse?

9. How does Ambrose feel about Magda and what is he afraid to do about it?

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

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