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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 a trifle heavy
(d) It is too skinny

2. What do most people do when they hear the funhouse character through the loud speakers?
(a) Laugh
(b) Listen carefully to what it is saying
(c) Stop and stare
(d) Frown

3. 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) Make her look like a gypsy fortune teller
(d) Modify her in certain ways

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

5. 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) Not falling off
(d) Choosing a mount

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

7. What does Ambrose think is happening every minute under the Atlantic Ocean?
(a) Fishes are mating
(b) Mammals are bearing babies
(c) Sharks are swimming with dolphins
(d) Millions of animals are eating one another

8. What does Ambrose wonder after he dozes off when he tries to find the old man?
(a) He wonders if he imagined the man
(b) He wonders if maybe he never entered the funhouse and this is just a dream
(c) He wonders how he could have left the room where he saw the man
(d) He wonders if his mother is worried

9. How does the narrator say Ambrose feels about a funhouse?
(a) Ambrose feels fear and confused about the funhouse
(b) Ambrose thinks funhouses are stupid
(c) Ambrose thinks they are funny
(d) Ambrose thinks funhouses are false

10. What does the narrator say is the best thing to do when lost?
(a) Stay in one place and holler if necessary
(b) Always travel in the same direction
(c) Always mark where you have already walked
(d) Always take the right hand turn

11. What did Ambrose feel during Magda enacting her punishment?
(a) He could not quit laughing
(b) An odd detachment
(c) Very powerful
(d) He felt like he loved everyone

12. Who does the narrator say Peter resembles?
(a) His father
(b) His maternal grandfather
(c) His mother
(d) His Uncle Karl

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

14. What was inked into the wood on the cigar box where the label is peeled away?
(a) Inspected by ____
(b) Made in Cuba
(c) Best of the best
(d) Imported direct to Florida

15. What kind of voice does Peter use when pledging to be a good boy?
(a) A slow, deep voice
(b) He talks in his normal voice
(c) He talks in a falsetto
(d) A voice with an English accent

Short Answer Questions

1. In what situation does the narrator say it is not a good idea for an author to use the first person?

2. What does Ambrose know is the strategy for spying the Towers first?

3. What do the children decide to do instead of enter the funhouse?

4. What does Ambrose think sounds like bees droning?

5. What does the matchbook cover Ambrose’s father has advertise?

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