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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. Why does Magda get angry at the swimming pool?
(a) A boy she does not know accidentally knocks her into the pool
(b) Peter tries to drag her into the water
(c) Uncle Karl pushes her into the pool
(d) Ambrose splashes water in her face

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

3. What does Ambrose think is the means by which each room in the funhouse is turned on?
(a) Ambrose does not think about how the funhouse works
(b) The customers hit trip wires
(c) There are photoelectric devices or operators with peepholes
(d) They are always on

4. What sudden thought scares Ambrose when he calls out to a person he hears walking in the funhouse after Ambrose is lost?
(a) That he is just imagining the sound of a person
(b) That it is Peter who will leave him there
(c) That it is a monster
(d) That it is Magda and she will think he is a coward

5. What does Ambrose decide the daughter of the funhouse operator, who hears his stories, will think of Ambrose?
(a) That he has a truly great imagination
(b) That he is a strange boy
(c) That she hopes he does not decide to write for a living
(d) That he must be slightly loony

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose wish for at the end of the story?

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

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

4. What is on the floor in the hall after the tumble-barrel room?

5. What is one of the reasons the front passenger is protected more from the sun than the driver?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the teenagers able to get into the Funhouse?

2. How does Ambrose feel about Magda and what is he afraid to do about it?

3. What is Ambrose thinking about asking Magda when they are at the pool, and what does he decide?

4. What does Ambrose do hesitantly to try and find some help while lost in the funhouse?

5. What happens as the teenagers are entering the Funhouse?

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

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

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

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

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

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