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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say sleep is like?

2. What does Wallander remember his father smelling like?

3. Rydberg says policemen are susceptible to what kind of illness?

4. Who does Widen say seldom get fat?

5. Wallander wants his officers to find more background on whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Wallander want to keep the information about the killers being foreign out of the media?

2. What orders does Wallander give his men in this chapter?

3. Why does Wallander think the killers are foreign?

4. In what way is Wallander's father strange?

5. How does Borman agree to help Wallander?

6. How does Wallender injure himself in this chapter?

7. What does Wallender find out about Johannes in this chapter?

8. How do Wallander and Sten know each other?

9. In what way is Kurt Wallender's life currently a mess?

10. What information does Wallander get from the Nystroms in this chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

What is the significance of Johannes' murder being so brutal? How does it link to the main themes in the book?

Essay Topic 3

What problems does the book highlight about Swedish society? How does the author use genre conventions of a detective story to highlight these problems?

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