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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 think about being himself?
(a) He would rather be Peter
(b) He does not know himself so he cannot be it
(c) There are other people inside him
(d) He is too much like his father

2. What nickname does Magda use for Ambrose?
(a) Amy
(b) Brose
(c) Amby
(d) Am

3. On what does a machine in the arcade stamp a person’s name?
(a) A US penny
(b) A white metal coin
(c) A piece of cardboard
(d) A tin plate

4. What does the narrator say might happen if Ambrose comes across another lost person in the funhouse?
(a) It would be a girl and she would not like him
(b) They would help and encourage each other
(c) He does not suggest that
(d) It would be an older boy who would laugh at Ambrose

5. Where are the electrical towers of the power plant located?
(a) V
(b) N
(c) T
(d) H

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say giving descriptions with two different senses, such as auditory and visual, can do?

2. In what year is it rumored that the roller coaster was condemned?

3. What does the narrator say to count a generation in years?

4. What does the narrator say the climax of this story must be?

5. What does Ambrose think a perfect funhouse would contain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ambrose think about when he is in the mirror room of the Funhouse, and what does Ambrose hear?

2. Describe Uncle Karl and Peter.

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

4. Why does Ambrose think people don’t know what to make of him?

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

6. How does Ambrose know Magda and Peter have exited the Funhouse?

7. Who does Ambrose think will overhear him telling stories while lost in the Funhouse?

8. What is the truth about Magda’s question that Ambrose does not tell her?

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

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

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