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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 kind of car is the family taking to Ocean City?
(a) 1936 LaSalle sedan
(b) 1940 Plymouth Valiant
(c) 1937 Ford Cabriolet
(d) 1938 Ford station wagon

2. What does Ambrose do after he pushes his glasses up on his nose while the family is driving?
(a) Sneezes
(b) Drops his hand on the seat behind Magda
(c) Drops his hand into Magda’s lap
(d) Coughs

3. What does Ambrose decide to do when he hears people in the corridor when he is lost?
(a) Bang on the wall
(b) Ignore them
(c) Yell for help
(d) Travel towards their voices

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

5. What does Ambrose imagine his father saying to him about the people on the boardwalk?
(a) They are trying to forget the war
(b) They are all here just to have some fun
(c) Half of them are probably insane
(d) Nothing is what it looks like

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ambrose see an old man who reminds him of his grandfather?

2. What happens when Uncle Karl taps his cigar out the ventilator window?

3. How does Ambrose end up with a sore toe in the funhouse?

4. Why does the narrator call Ambrose’s father a minstrel in reverse that evening?

5. What did Ambrose say to Magda in the tool shed after she was done with her punishment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the truth about Magda’s question that Ambrose does not tell her?

2. What happens as the teenagers are entering 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. What is one reason the narrator says exists for not writing a lost-in-the-fun-house story?

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

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

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

8. Describe Uncle Karl and Peter.

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

10. What does the narrator say is the function of the beginning of a story?

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