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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. In Ambrose’s imagination, what does Uncle Karl tease Ambrose about on the drive home from Ocean City?
(a) Finding his way through the funhouse with a blind Negro girl
(b) Getting lost in the funhouse
(c) Loosing Magda and the chance to kiss her in the funhouse
(d) Running out from under the boardwalk looking terrified

2. What does the narrator say should be the middle of a story about being lost in a fun house?
(a) The narrator thinks there should be no set beginning, middle and end in a story
(b) All the relevant facts between going into the house and getting lost
(c) He does not say what should be in the middle
(d) The middle should start when the main character gets lost

3. What does Ambrose know he will teach his son?
(a) How to ignore the adolescent hormones
(b) How to walk next to a girl
(c) How to pick up girls
(d) How to fish and softcrab

4. What does Ambrose think is a disappointment to eat even though they look good?
(a) Cotton candy on sticks
(b) Funnel cakes
(c) Candied apples
(d) Corn dogs

5. Ambrose thinks everything one sees in Ocean City is preparation and intermission for what?
(a) Growing up
(b) Life
(c) Sex
(d) Winning the war

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uncle Karl say Ambrose’s future family will use to go on vacation?

2. What do Peter and Magda do while Ambrose’s father is searching for Ambrose?

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

4. Why does Ambrose go under the boardwalk?

5. What is wrong with the windows of the fortune telling machine?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Ambrose do after Magda and Peter leave the Funhouse?

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

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

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

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

8. What does the Gypsy Fortune Teller machine look like?

9. What does Ambrose remember about playing the game 'Niggers and Masters' with Peter and Magda when they were younger?

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

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