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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say about Magda’s physical figure?
(a) It is well developed for her age
(b) It is still pre-adolescent
(c) It is too skinny
(d) It is a trifle heavy

2. What does Ambrose’s mother do for Uncle Karl in the car while they are driving to Ocean City?
(a) Reads the map for him
(b) Nothing
(c) Gets the cigar lighter for him
(d) Gives him a sandwich to eat

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

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

5. 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

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

7. What does the narrator say to count a generation in years?
(a) Thirty years
(b) Twenty years
(c) Thirty-five years
(d) Twenty-five years

8. How does Magda peel a banana?
(a) She cuts the peel with a fingernail
(b) Using one hand and her teeth
(c) With her toes
(d) With both hands

9. What does the narrator say a man could do with a mannequin?
(a) Set her up to scare people in the funhouse
(b) Modify her in certain ways
(c) Use her as a guard on the bedroom door
(d) Make her look like a gypsy fortune teller

10. What sets beside the lady on the cigar box?
(a) A small bassinette
(b) A five-stringed lyre
(c) A flute
(d) A stack of books

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

12. What is the most difficult part of riding the carousel only once?
(a) Not falling off
(b) Choosing a mount
(c) Not getting a horse near Magda
(d) Coming up with the ticket price

13. What did Ambrose say to Magda in the tool shed after she was done with her punishment?
(a) He would never punish her again
(b) Ambrose would never forget that moment
(c) Ambrose asked Magda to marry him
(d) Peter would be so jealous

14. What novelist does the narrator mention as to how that author describes the sea?
(a) James Joyce
(b) Edgar Allan Poe
(c) George Eliot
(d) Nathaniel Hawthorne

15. What does the narrator say are the two reasons for not writing a story about being lost in a funhouse?
(a) No one actually goes into funhouses anymore
(b) It would be a boring story with little action or plot
(c) Everyone has felt what Ambrose feels or no normal person feels such things
(d) Anyone intelligent enough to buy a ticket would not be stupid enough to get lost

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where are the electrical towers of the power plant located?

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

5. What was inked into the wood on the cigar box where the label is peeled away?

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