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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ambrose imagine reminding his wife of when he is old and gray?
(a) His youthful passions
(b) How his wife is the real force behind his work
(c) How he could not have won a Nobel prize without her
(d) How he has been a success

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

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

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

5. Of what does Ambrose warn Magda when he asks her to go through the funhouse with him?
(a) That a kiss will be acceptable payment for spending a quarter on her
(b) That he has never been through the funhouse
(c) That he plans to look up her dress
(d) That Peter will not be with them as Peter has no money

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say to count a generation in years?

2. Why is Ambrose embarrassed when he hands the funhouse ticket woman money for him and Magda?

3. What does Ambrose think would be the reason the daughter would not rescue him?

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

5. What does the narrator say is an image an author might use when writing a story about Ocean City during World War II?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Peter do after giving up on his and his Uncle Karl’s play at the pool?

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

4. What does Ambrose remember about playing the game 'Niggers and Masters' with Peter and Magda when they were younger?

5. What is done in Ocean City because of U-boats and how is it done?

6. What does the narrator say is the function of the beginning of a story?

7. What does Ambrose think about when he is in the mirror room of the Funhouse, and what does Ambrose hear?

8. What does the narrator say a Freitag’s Triangle is?

9. What does Ambrose imagine about his son and what he might say to the boy?

10. What does Magda ask Ambrose about concerning his foot, and what is his reply?

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