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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 Estelle say that she exchanged with a neighbor in Chapter 58?

2. What do Jack and Jim find at the back of the walk-in closet in the apartment in Chapter 42?

3. How often does Jack tell his dad that he should take off his wedding ring?

4. What did Julia's mother do for a living?

5. In Chapter 51, what is the psychologist eating when Zara arrives early for her appointment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lennart go to the closet for some pants?

2. What does Jack find in the walk-in closet at the apartment?

3. How do the police get the pizzas to the hostages?

4. Where does the bank robber live after the hostage situation?

5. What does the narrator say is the truth at the end of the book?

6. What personal question does the negotiator from Stockholm ask Jack?

7. What does Jim remember that his wife used to do?

8. Why has Nadia not prescribed antidepressants for Zara?

9. What does Anna-Lena say about being a boss?

10. Why is Roger right when he says that the top floor of the building used to be one apartment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator comments that the word Stockholm represents more than a place. How is the word Stockholmers used in the book? What does it symbolize?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 3

Jim and Jack are thinking of their wife/mother as the hostage situation unfolds. Why do Jim and Jack think about their wife/mother during the hostage situation? How and why do they try to do things that they know she would have approved of?

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