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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. Who is waiting for Wallander in the canteen?

2. What is Ebba's role at the police station?

3. What kind of vegetable has been used to insult the refugee?

4. What animal does the man say he usually dreams about?

5. Who does the reporter say no one cares about in Sweden anymore?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Wallander think the killers are foreign?

3. How do Wallander and Sten know each other?

4. What do the old man and his wife see when they enter the Lovgren's house?

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

6. What does Wallander's father say about Linda?

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

8. What does the reader find out about refugees in Sweden in this chapter?

9. Describe the woman who answers Per Akeson's door.

10. How does Wallender injure himself in this chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are Wallander's flaws? Why has Mankell decided to make Wallander such a flawed person? What difference would it make to the story if he was not so flawed?

Essay Topic 2

What are the different subplots in the story? How do they link to the main plot? Why is it important subplots have something in common with the main story? What is an example of a bad subplot?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways could Wallander be called a flawed character? Why is it important to the story and the series in general that Wallander is so imperfect?

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