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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. Who sets the price for Magda’s clemency in the game 'niggers and masters'?
(a) Ambrose
(b) Peter
(c) Magda
(d) It is set in the rules of the game

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

3. What kind of car is the family taking to Ocean City?
(a) 1938 Ford station wagon
(b) 1937 Ford Cabriolet
(c) 1936 LaSalle sedan
(d) 1940 Plymouth Valiant

4. What do Peter and Magda do while Ambrose’s father is searching for Ambrose?
(a) Go under the boardwalk and make out
(b) Go swimming
(c) Play another game on the boardwalk
(d) Eat French fries

5. What kind of tattoo does Uncle Karl have?
(a) A sea anchor
(b) A heart with an arrow through it
(c) A snake wrapped around his biceps
(d) A U.S. flag

Short Answer Questions

1. On what does a machine in the arcade stamp a person’s name?

2. What literary device does the narrator say diving into the swimming pool could be?

3. What does Ambrose see through the shoulders of Magda’s sundress when she leans forward to look for the Towers?

4. Why does Ambrose walk on Magda’s right side when they are on the boardwalk?

5. What does Ambrose imagine doing if he gets out of the funhouse on his own?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one reason the narrator says exists for not writing a lost-in-the-fun-house story?

2. What does Peter do when everyone falls to the floor, and how does Magda react to Peter’s behavior?

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

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

5. What advertises the funhouse that the family stares at, and what does Peter suggests when they are looking at it? What does Ambrose suggest?

6. How does Magda react to Ambrose taking her arm, and what does he want to tell her?

7. What does an elderly man say to Ambrose about how to enter the Funhouse?

8. What does Ambrose do because he is so nervous about going in the Funhouse with Magda and what does the ticket woman say to Magda?

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

10. What do Peter and Uncle Karl try at the pool, and how does Ambrose’s mother react to their behavior? How is Ambrose involved in the situation?

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