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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the usual reward for the first person to see the towers?

2. What does Ambrose tell Magda is the reason he is limping?

3. Of what are cigar boxes made in the present time in the story?

4. What is on the floor in the hall after the tumble-barrel room?

5. Where does Magda’s rest her right hand while the family is driving to Ocean City?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ambrose do hesitantly to try and find some help while lost in the funhouse?

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

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

5. In which section of the Funhouse does Ambrose take Magda’s arm, and why does he take her arm?

6. What are Peter and Magda doing while Ambrose is in the Funhouse?

7. What happens to Ambrose’s father the first day, and what does his father have to do about it?

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

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

10. What does the narrator say is the reason a writer should stick with using the Freitag’s Triangle?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

During the trip to Ocean City, Ambrose’s family plays car games. A traditional game is being the first to see the Towers. Ambrose, at four, realized how to win this game every time.

Discuss what understanding how to win a game at the age of four says about Ambrose as a person and what this illustrates about his intellect. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Ambrose and his narrator alter ego are both marked by their exceptionally keen awareness of self.

Discuss the ways in which Ambrose demonstrates an awareness of himself. Questions to consider might be: How does he perceive himself? How does he see himself in relationship to others? How does he think others see him? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Identify the protagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Identify the antagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Which secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story? Explain.

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