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

2. What does the narrator say is a symptom of nervous tension?
(a) Staring off into the distance
(b) Violent, repeating yawning
(c) Pacing
(d) Shuffling one’s feet

3. What does the narrator say might provide a foreshadowing of the story’s climax?
(a) What the fortune teller machine would say if Ambrose played it
(b) How Magda takes Peter’s arm in the arcade
(c) The way the clouds cover the sun
(d) The three children getting lost in the Arcade

4. Why does Ambrose walk on Magda’s right side when they are on the boardwalk?
(a) Because she is left handed and has a box in her left hand
(b) To shade her from the sun
(c) Because Peter is on her left side
(d) To protect her from the street

5. 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) They are the same
(d) Three years younger

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Ambrose’s mother say when Magda wins the Towers game?

4. What does the narrator say is the manuscript mark for italic type?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are Peter and Magda doing while Ambrose is in the Funhouse?

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. What is Ambrose’s father doing while Ambrose is in the Funhouse?

8. Describe Uncle Karl and Peter.

9. What does Ambrose decide is the whole point of being in Ocean City, and how does he see Ocean City when he figures this out?

10. What does Magda ask Ambrose about concerning his foot, and what is his reply?

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