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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 is the emotional age of an adolescent boy compared to a girl?
(a) One year older
(b) Two years younger
(c) Three years younger
(d) They are the same

2. What does Ambrose think is different about himself from others?
(a) He is smarter than anyone he knows, even his father
(b) He understands more than he should
(c) He is an adult in mind even though he is only 13
(d) He has the ability to be a true hero

3. How does Ambrose end up with a sore toe in the funhouse?
(a) He stubs it on the wall
(b) Magda jumps on it
(c) A sailor and his girlfriend steps on the toe
(d) Peter accidentally kicks him

4. What does the narrator suggest may be the name of the bay instead of Assawoman Bay?
(a) Chesapeake Bay
(b) Sinepuxent
(c) East Bay
(d) Oleander Bay

5. Where are the electrical towers of the power plant located?
(a) V
(b) T
(c) N
(d) H

Short Answer Questions

1. What novelist does the narrator mention as to how that author describes the sea?

2. What does Ambrose think is a disappointment to eat even though they look good?

3. What does Uncle Karl do for a living?

4. What does Ambrose decide he will do for others because of being lost in the funhouse?

5. Why does Ambrose think the funhouse cannot be too scary or dangerous?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ambrose feel about the Funhouse on the way home, and what does Uncle Karl do about the whole affair?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Uncle Karl say will change the holiday for the family this year and why has this occured?

8. Who is in the car with Ambrose driving to Ocean City?

9. Why does the family stay out of the ocean, and what do they do instead of swimming in the ocean?

10. 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?

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