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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 - 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Simile.

2. What kind of car does Ove drive?
(a) Volvo.
(b) BMW.
(c) Saab.
(d) Skoda.

3. What was the name of the cat that Ove's wife kept at her father's house?
(a) Harry.
(b) Ernest.
(c) Jack.
(d) Mittens.

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

5. Where did Ove's father work all his life?
(a) The library.
(b) The rail company.
(c) The bank.
(d) The textile company.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago was the funeral for Ove's wife, according to the narrator in Chapter 6: “A Man Called Ove and a Bicycle that Should Have Been Left where Bicycles are Left”?

2. What does Ove do to the clown in Chapter 13: “A Man Called Ove and a Clown Called Beppo”?

3. For how long does the narrator say Ove and Rune had known one another in Chapter 9: “A Man Called Ove Bleeds a Radiator”?

4. 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”?

5. How is the first car that Ove bougtht for himself described in Chapter 10: “A Man who was Ove and a House that Ove Built”?

(see the answer key)

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