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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 about Magda’s physical figure?
(a) It is well developed for her age
(b) It is too skinny
(c) It is still pre-adolescent
(d) It is a trifle heavy

2. What does the narrator say is a way to save face if one is lost when one is found?
(a) Act surprised at the fuss and pretend you were never lost
(b) Start to cry when asked a question
(c) Say you were chasing a dog who got into the funhouse
(d) Pretend you were trying to find a lost child you heard crying

3. 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

4. Where does the family always stop for lunch on the way to Ocean City?
(a) At a picnic ground two miles from the ocean
(b) At Ambrose’s aunt’s house
(c) At MacDonald’s
(d) At the Two Shoe Diner

5. 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 adds words to the book
(c) It orients the reader’s imagination to the scene
(d) It draws the attention away from any narrative contrivances

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say funhouses need at intervals?

2. Who sets the price for Magda’s clemency in the game 'niggers and masters'?

3. How much money does Ambrose’s mother give each teenager to spend?

4. What does the narrator suggest may be the name of the bay instead of Assawoman Bay?

5. What does the narrator say to count a generation in years?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. How does Ambrose feel after what he sees at the boardwalk, and what does he want to do? What comment does Magda make about Ambrose’s condition?

5. In which section of the Funhouse does Ambrose take Magda’s arm, and why does he take her arm?

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

7. What does the narrator say is the best thing to do when one is lost, and what is the drawback to that action?

8. What was often done in 19th Century fiction to make a work appear real?

9. Why are the prizes different on the broken machines at the arcade?

10. What does Ambrose remember of a cigar box his Uncle Karl has?

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