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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. How does Ambrose end up with a sore toe in the funhouse?
(a) Magda jumps on it
(b) He stubs it on the wall
(c) Peter accidentally kicks him
(d) A sailor and his girlfriend steps on the toe

2. What example does Ambrose use to show he has more imagination than Peter?
(a) Talking about life at college in detail
(b) Knowing exactly how it will feel to be married
(c) Describing a trip to the moon
(d) Telling Peter how Magda will look as an adult

3. In what situation does the narrator say it is not a good idea for an author to use the first person?
(a) When it is essential for the narrator to know what every character is thinking
(b) When it is obvious the events could not be real
(c) When the story is written for children
(d) When the narrator identifies too strongly with the narrator

4. What does Peter say is the reason Uncle Karl wants to go to the beach?
(a) He likes to surf fish
(b) He likes to get a good tan
(c) He likes to watch the women
(d) He likes to body surf

5. What does Ambrose think would be the reason the daughter would not rescue him?
(a) She believes he must be alone and suffering to achieve greatness
(b) Her father will not allow her to find Ambrose
(c) She is too afraid of the dark
(d) She thinks he is crazy

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Magda pretend to ignore at the swimming pool?

2. What does the narrator say is the way to maintain control of one’s voice?

3. What does Ambrose imagine about his work when he is an adult?

4. What are two of the names Peter came up for his future children as a joke?

5. What is the most difficult part of riding the carousel only once?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Uncle Karl say will change the holiday for the family this year and why has this occured?

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. What does the narrator say a Freitag’s Triangle is?

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

8. Why does the family stay out of the ocean, and what do they do instead of swimming in the ocean?

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

10. 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?

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