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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 Uncle Karl do for a living?
(a) Is a school teacher
(b) Is a masonry contractor
(c) Works in a munitions factory
(d) Has a plumbing business

2. What did Ambrose feel during Magda enacting her punishment?
(a) An odd detachment
(b) He could not quit laughing
(c) Very powerful
(d) He felt like he loved everyone

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

4. Of what are cigar boxes made in the present time in the story?
(a) Plastic
(b) Wood
(c) Cigars are not sold in boxes during the war
(d) Pasteboard

5. What does Ambrose’s mother tell the children about the money they are given?
(a) Do not spend the money quickly or in one place
(b) Use the money for rides because the father will buy dinner
(c) It is a holiday so spend it having a good time
(d) Put the money away in their deepest pocket

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the reasons the front passenger is protected more from the sun than the driver?

2. What does Ambrose think about being himself?

3. At what age are people when the narrator says some people hit their stride?

4. How does Peter get into the swimming pool?

5. What does the narrator say should be the middle of a story about being lost in a fun house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ambrose think people don’t know what to make of him?

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 see in his imagination about married life?

4. Who does Ambrose see in the Funhouse when he is wandering and what is that person doing?

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

6. What does an elderly man say to Ambrose about how to enter the Funhouse?

7. What does Peter do after giving up on his and his Uncle Karl’s play at the pool?

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

9. Why doesn’t Ambrose ask the person he sees how to get out of the Funhouse, and what happens when Ambrose realizes he is lost?

10. Who does Ambrose think will overhear him telling stories while lost in the Funhouse?

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