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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 Benny claim to have studied when talking with Prosecutor Ranelid in Chapter 25?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Engineering.
(c) Physics.
(d) Criminology.

2. What years are covered in Chapter 26?
(a) 1955-1959.
(b) 1962-1968.
(c) 1968-1982.
(d) 1989-1990.

3. When was Claude Pennant born?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1928.

4. How does the man in the suit describe his country's president in the Epilogue?
(a) A loose cannon.
(b) A dictator.
(c) Mad and insufferable.
(d) A wise and responsible person.

5. Who provides Allan and Herbert with false passports in Chapter 20?
(a) Professor Bernhard Lundborg.
(b) Henning Algotsson.
(c) Mao Tse-tung.
(d) Superintendent Krook.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the sailor from that dumps Bucket's remains in Chapter 22?

2. When was Jonas Jonasson born?

3. What Swedish tabloid toys with "the idea of using Tarot cards to help them home in on Allan’s whereabouts" in Chapter 19?

4. What is the name of Yury Borisovich Popov’s wife that attends the opera with him in Chapter 26?

5. How old is Allan after he's spent fifteen years in Bali in Chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you describe Allan's behavior when he meets President Johnson in Chapter 23?

2. What is Prosecutor Ranelid's main objective in coming to Bellringer Farm in Chapter 25?

3. How is the theme of fate illustrated in Chapter 18?

4. What is indicated through Allan's meeting with President Nixon in Chapter 26?

5. How does Allan feel about Amanda Einstein's rise in political power in Bali?

6. How are the major conflicts of the novel resolved in Chapter 22?

7. Would you consider the revelations in Chapter 22 to be realistic? Why or why not?

8. Why does Chief Inspector Aronsson decide to join Allan and his friends in the end of the novel?

9. How do Allan and Herbert manage to escape the gulag in Chapter 18?

10. How have the mood and tone of the narrative changed in Chapter 19?

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