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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Lena work?
(a) At a shoe store.
(b) At the local newspaper.
(c) At a candy store.
(d) At the local police station.

2. What does the narrator say Ove had brought along with him in the beginning of Chapter 34: “A Man Called Ove and a Boy in the House Next Door”?
(a) A blue plastic deck chair.
(b) A basket of flowers.
(c) A saucer of milk.
(d) A basket of bread.

3. Where does the narrator say Ove slept in the nights after his house burned in Chapter 12: “A Man who was Ove and One Day He Had Enough”?
(a) In his car.
(b) His neighbor's house.
(c) A hotel.
(d) His parents' house.

4. What did Ove respond when his future wife asked what he wanted to do with his life on their first date?
(a) To conduct trains.
(b) To paint portraits.
(c) To build houses.
(d) To build boats.

5. What does Ove ask Parvaneh if she has when he visits her in the end of Chapter 26: “A Man Called Ove and a Society where No-one Can Repair a Bicycle Any More”?
(a) A green sign.
(b) A blanket.
(c) Corrugated steel.
(d) A rug.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Parvaneh ask Ove to help her with in Chapter 24: “A Man Called Ove and a Brat who Paints in Color”?

2. 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”?

3. What food did Sonja eat obsessively during her pregnancy?

4. The narrator says in Chapter 34: “A Man Called Ove and a Boy in the House Next Door" that "if there was one single thing Ove and Rune agreed on, irrespective of how much they were feuding at the time, it was that whoever currently populated the neighbor’s house tended to be" what?

5. On what day of the week was Ove told that he was being forced into retirement?

(see the answer key)

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