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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 decide to do when he hears people in the corridor when he is lost?
(a) Bang on the wall
(b) Ignore them
(c) Yell for help
(d) Travel towards their voices

2. What does Ambrose wish for at the end of the story?
(a) That Magda was with him
(b) That the funhouse had never been built
(c) That he was already an adult
(d) That he had never entered the funhouse and that he was dead

3. Why might an author in fiction delete a name and use a blank for it?
(a) The author does not want to get sued
(b) The editors prefer to decide on characters’ names
(c) It makes the fiction look real
(d) The author cannot decide on a good name for a character

4. Where does Magda’s rest her right hand while the family is driving to Ocean City?
(a) On the back of the front passenger seat
(b) On the seat near Ambrose’s left leg
(c) On the door’s armrest
(d) On her lap

5. Why did Peter leave the game of Niggers and Masters that he, Ambrose, and Magda were playing?
(a) He was losing
(b) His father wanted him to mow the lawn
(c) He had to deliver newspapers
(d) His girlfriend came over

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say triangulation is?

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

3. Why does Ambrose keep his hand on the seat behind Magda?

4. What does Peter do that makes Magda chase him into the maze room?

5. Where in the funhouse can the boys see up the girls’ dresses if they try?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Ambrose’s mother give the three teenagers when they reach the boardwalk, and what does she say to them and why?

5. What gives Ambrose hope that he will find the exit to the Funhouse?

6. How does Ambrose feel about the Funhouse on the way home, and what does Uncle Karl do about the whole affair?

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

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

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

10. What church does Ambrose’s family belong to, and why is Ambrose different from most other children in the church? Why did it happen?

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