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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the next bus set to depart the station when Allan arrives in Chapter 2?
(a) Bus 202.
(b) Bus 101.
(c) Bus 105.
(d) Bus 24.

2. What does the narrator describe Allan hiding and the nursing home director repeatedly finding it in Chapter 2?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Wine.

3. How old is Allan when his father's bed is moved into the wood-shed?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 9.

4. What is Bucket's real name revealed to be in Chapter 10?
(a) Benny Ljungberg.
(b) Henning Algotsson.
(c) Henrik Hultén.
(d) Herbert Einstein.

5. What is Julius's last name in the narrative?
(a) Klasson.
(b) Anderson.
(c) Jonsson.
(d) Aronsson.

6. How much money does Benny give to Bosse when they meet in Chapter 15?
(a) $3 million.
(b) $1 million.
(c) $5 million.
(d) $2 million.

7. Where does the narrator describe Allan's mother marching in the May Day parade in Chapter 4?
(a) Strängnäs.
(b) Malmköping.
(c) Byringe.
(d) Flen.

8. What item of evidence have the investigators discovered where Bucket was killed in Chapter 14?
(a) Bucket's pill bottle.
(b) Bucket's body.
(c) Bucket's knife.
(d) Bucket's revolver.

9. What is the Boss's real name in the narrative?
(a) Benny Ljungberg.
(b) Per-Gunnar Gerdin.
(c) Julius Jonsson.
(d) Allan Karlsson.

10. Where is Allan working in the beginnning of Chapter 11?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) New York.
(d) Los Alamos.

11. During what years is Chapter 9 set?
(a) 1939-1945.
(b) 1933-1936.
(c) 1942-1946.
(d) 1946-1952.

12. Who arrests and questions Allan after he has blown up his childhood home in Chapter 7?
(a) Chief Inspector Aronsson.
(b) Superintendent Aronsson.
(c) Prosecutor Ranelid.
(d) Superintendent Krook.

13. What does Prosecutor Conny Ranelid intend to leak to the press in the end of Chapter 14?
(a) That "the centenarian is a veritable murder machine."
(b) That "the centenarian" has died.
(c) That "the centenarian has left the country."
(d) That "the centenarian is in grave danger from his kidnappers."

14. What mountain range does Allan recall crossing in his youth in Chapter 2?
(a) The Andes.
(b) The Himalayas.
(c) The Pyrenees.
(d) The Sierra Nevada.

15. Who is the husband of Soong May-ling?
(a) Mao Tse-tung.
(b) Julius Jonsson.
(c) Herbert Einstein.
(d) Chiang Kai-shek.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bosse's residence is located near what small town?

2. Where was Reverend Ferguson born, raised, and educated?

3. To where did the Swedish consulate in Petrograd send a telegram to inform Allan's mother of his father's death?

4. When did the real-life General Francisco Franco live?

5. How many years has it been since Benny has seen his brother Bosse when they meet in Chapter 15?

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