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

2. How many times a year does Ambrose’s family come to Ocean City?
(a) Once a year
(b) This is their first time at Ocean City
(c) Twice a year
(d) Three times a year

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

4. What does the narrator say is an image an author might use when writing a story about Ocean City during World War II?
(a) Patrols on the beach
(b) Sailors on leave playing in the arcades
(c) The oil on the ocean
(d) Sailors pulling their girls under the boardwalk

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

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

7. Why does Ambrose go under the boardwalk?
(a) To steal a kiss from Magda
(b) To look for match books
(c) To see if anyone is under there making out
(d) To look for shells

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

9. Where is the imaginary torture chamber to which Magda took Ambrose?
(a) In the garage
(b) Behind the hedge in the side yard
(c) Between the woodshed and the privy
(d) On the front porch

10. What does the narrator say Independence Day is in America?
(a) The most important secular holiday in America
(b) A minor religious holiday
(c) Just an excuse for a day off work
(d) A time to eat hot dogs

11. What does Peter say is the reason Uncle Karl wants to go to the beach?
(a) He likes to watch the women
(b) He likes to body surf
(c) He likes to get a good tan
(d) He likes to surf fish

12. What does Ambrose notice is missing that causes Ambrose to falter when he is lost in a dark area of the funhouse?
(a) No doors
(b) No windows
(c) Phorescent arrows and other signs
(d) Other people

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

14. What does the narrator suggest may be the name of the bay instead of Assawoman Bay?
(a) Chesapeake Bay
(b) Oleander Bay
(c) Sinepuxent
(d) East Bay

15. What kind of tree leaves does Ambrose remember from his younger days?
(a) Hickory
(b) Maple
(c) Oak
(d) Beech

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is a symptom of nervous tension?

2. What does the family decide to do instead of swim in the ocean?

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

4. What does Ambrose decide the daughter of the funhouse operator, who hears his stories, will think of Ambrose?

5. With what does Ambrose brush Magda’s skirt?

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