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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 Ambrose imagine reminding his wife of when he is old and gray?
(a) His youthful passions
(b) How he could not have won a Nobel prize without her
(c) How he has been a success
(d) How his wife is the real force behind his work

2. What does Ambrose’s father say about the way his family takes vacations?
(a) It is a sign of the deterioration of American life
(b) It is more interesting
(c) It is more difficult
(d) It is easier

3. Why didn’t Ambrose swim?
(a) He has a pain in his stomach
(b) He does not like to swim
(c) He forgot his swimsuit
(d) He does not want Magda to see his bare chest

4. What novelist does the narrator mention as to how that author describes the sea?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe
(b) James Joyce
(c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(d) George Eliot

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose imagine his father saying to him about the people on the boardwalk?

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

3. What example does Ambrose use to show he has more imagination than Peter?

4. What does Ambrose do after he pushes his glasses up on his nose while the family is driving?

5. What kind of tattoo does Uncle Karl have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has Ambrose realized about winning the traditional game, and at what age does he understand this tactic?

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

3. What kind of machines in the arcade are broken, and why are they sitting there broken?

4. What does Ambrose see in his imagination about married life?

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

6. How do the people in the car pass the time during the trip?

7. When thoroughly lost, what does Ambrose imagine happens to him in the Funhouse?

8. 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?

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

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

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