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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. During what years is Chapter 13 set?
(a) 1939-1942.
(b) 1951-1953.
(c) 1949-1950.
(d) 1947-1948.
2. What news has Harry S. Truman just received in Chapter 11?
(a) World War II has ended.
(b) President Roosevelt has died.
(c) Hitler has committed suicide.
(d) World War II has erupted in Europe.
3. Where is Allan working in the beginnning of Chapter 11?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Los Alamos.
(d) New York.
4. How old is Allan when his father's bed is moved into the wood-shed?
(a) 7.
(b) 12.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.
5. Whose gravestone does Allan sit next to by the church after escaping the nursing home?
(a) Henning Algotsson's.
(b) Bernhard Lundborg's.
(c) Gustavsson's.
(d) Herbert Einstein's.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the prosecutor in charge in Eskilstuna?
2. Who spends much of his time fishing while staying at the Beauty's farm?
3. What is the first town that Allan encounters after he's been freed from jail for blowing up his cabin in Chapter 7?
4. Who is the Tsar that Allan's father describes in Chapter 4?
5. For what company does Allan work as an errand boy when he is ten years old?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Allan and his friends attain safe refuge from their assailants in Chapter 15?
2. What central character is introduced in Chapter 1? What is he doing when the narrative begins?
3. What antagonistic characters are introduced in Chapter 6?
4. How does Allan describe his political views in Chapter 13?
5. How does Allan meet General Franco in Chapter 7? How does this meeting benefit Allan?
6. What character is introduced at a press meeting in Chapter 5? How is the media depicted?
7. What protagonist characters are introduced in Chapter 6? What does their introduction represent?
8. How do the themes of compassion and generosity apply in Chapter 12?
9. For whom is Allan working in Chapter 11? Why does he change sides?
10. When and where was Allan Karlsson born? How is his childhood described?
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