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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ambrose know he will teach his son?
(a) How to pick up girls
(b) How to walk next to a girl
(c) How to fish and softcrab
(d) How to ignore the adolescent hormones

2. What kind of tattoo does Uncle Karl have?
(a) A snake wrapped around his biceps
(b) A heart with an arrow through it
(c) A sea anchor
(d) A U.S. flag

3. What does Ambrose finally figure out about his father’s reaction when Ambrose says he is going through the funhouse with Magda?
(a) His father does not want Ambrose going without Peter
(b) His father thought it was humorous
(c) His father is thinking about taking his mother also
(d) His father wonders if Ambrose knows what goes on in a funhouse

4. What does Ambrose think a perfect funhouse would contain?
(a) That the lights would come one every half hour when a bell rings
(b) Exits in every room
(c) Only one way to go through it
(d) A lighted trail through it like in the movie theater

5. What did Ambrose try to do when he was baptized?
(a) Swim in the baptismal pond
(b) He tried not to laugh
(c) Bring tears to his eyes
(d) He tried not to cry

6. What does Ambrose decide the daughter of the funhouse operator, who hears his stories, will think of Ambrose?
(a) That he has a truly great imagination
(b) That she hopes he does not decide to write for a living
(c) That he is a strange boy
(d) That he must be slightly loony

7. Where do Ambrose and his family live?
(a) Delaware
(b) Virginia
(c) Maryland
(d) Washington D.C.

8. What does the narrator say is the primary function of the middle of a story?
(a) The middle of a story contains the climax so the end can finish with the resolution
(b) He is uncertain what the function should be
(c) To delay the climax
(d) He does not think there is a function to the middle of a story, only the beginning and end.

9. What does Ambrose realize when he is the first person through the tumble-barrel room?
(a) The point was not to get through it quickly
(b) He dropped his flashlight
(c) He did not see Magda fall
(d) Peter was taking over with Magda

10. How much money does Ambrose’s mother give each teenager to spend?
(a) Fifty cents
(b) Two dollars
(c) One dollar
(d) One and a half dollars

11. What does the narrator say funhouses need at intervals?
(a) Bells to ring if one is sick
(b) Male and female restrooms
(c) Exit signs
(d) Staff members to help lost people

12. What does the narrator say should be the middle of a story about being lost in a fun house?
(a) He does not say what should be in the middle
(b) The middle should start when the main character gets lost
(c) All the relevant facts between going into the house and getting lost
(d) The narrator thinks there should be no set beginning, middle and end in a story

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

14. Where does Uncle Karl tell the children not to go?
(a) Under the boardwalk
(b) To any casino
(c) To any of the bars that serve liquor
(d) In the ocean

15. Who sets the price for Magda’s clemency in the game 'niggers and masters'?
(a) Magda
(b) Ambrose
(c) Peter
(d) It is set in the rules of the game

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Ambrose’s mother tell the children about the money they are given?

4. Why have Ambrose and his family come to Ocean City?

5. What did Ambrose feel during Magda enacting her punishment?

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