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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 32 - 34.

Multiple Choice 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”?
(a) Spraying water on her lawn.
(b) Throwing rocks at the cat.
(c) Raking her lawn.
(d) Kicking the dog.

2. What do Ove's neighbors bring to him in Chapter 7: “A Man Called Ove Drills a Hole for a Hook”?
(a) A plate of rice.
(b) A box of takeout.
(c) A cake.
(d) A box of cookies.

3. What does Ove spread over his floor in the beginning of Chapter 7: “A Man Called Ove Drills a Hole for a Hook”?
(a) A stack of newspapers.
(b) A sheet of plastic.
(c) Lacquer.
(d) An Oriental rug.

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

5. What did Ove's elderly neighbor leave for him on his front porch after Ove painted his fence in Chapter 10: “A Man who was Ove and a House that Ove Built”?
(a) An apple pie.
(b) A set of car keys.
(c) A plate of cookies.
(d) A Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attended Ove's wedding?

2. What is the Blond Weed's dog's name?

3. What is the children's book about that Ove attempts to read to Parveneh's children in Chapter 13: “A Man Called Ove and a Clown Called Beppo”?

4. At the end of what decade was the house next to Ove's bought by a bank manager, according to the narrator in Chapter 34: “A Man Called Ove and a Boy in the House Next Door"?

5. What does Ove call the parking attendant at the hospital in Chapter 13: “A Man Called Ove and a Clown Called Beppo”?

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