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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Rune's wife?
(a) Alice.
(b) Parvaneh.
(c) Sonja.
(d) Anita.

2. In what narrative tense is Chapter 2: “(Three Weeks Earlier) A Man Called Ove Makes His Neighborhood Inspection” related?
(a) Past tense and present tense.
(b) Both present and future tenses.
(c) Future tense.
(d) Present tense.

3. How old is Anders said to be in Chapter 2: “(Three Weeks Earlier) A Man Called Ove Makes His Neighborhood Inspection”?
(a) 40.
(b) 50.
(c) 60.
(d) 30.

4. What does Ove say is "the only thing that people care about nowadays" before storming out of the store in Chapter 1: “A Man Called Ove Buys A Computer That Is Not A Computer”?
(a) "Sleep."
(b) "Money."
(c) "Death."
(d) "Lunch."

5. How much money was in the wallet that Ove found when he was cleaning a broken railway car in Chapter 5: “A Man Called Ove”?
(a) Over 8,000 kroner.
(b) Over 6,000 kroner.
(c) Approximately 1,000 kroner.
(d) Over 9,000 kroner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Blond Weed doing when Ove encounters her in Chapter 6: “A Man Called Ove and a Bicycle that Should Have Been Left where Bicycles are Left”?

2. What literary device is employed in this sentence from Chapter 1: “A Man Called Ove Buys A Computer That Is Not A Computer”: "He's the kind of man who points at people he doesn't like the look of, as if they were burglars and his forefinger a policeman's flashlight"?

3. How old is Jimmy said to be in Chapter 6: “A Man Called Ove and a Bicycle that Should Have Been Left where Bicycles are Left”?

4. How old was Ove when his mother died?

5. Where did Ove's mother work before she died?

(see the answer key)

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