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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 Hansson have strewn all over his desk?

2. Where does Wallander's sister live?

3. Who does Wallander order his officers to interview?

4. What does Wallander get authorization to do?

5. What did the criminals give the horse to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of relationship does Wallander have with his daughter Linda?

2. Why does Wallander have problems with Hansson?

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

4. Why does the old man wake up?

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

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

7. What does the old man see from his bedroom window?

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

9. What does the bank teller inform Wallander about Johannes?

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

What problems do the Swedish media cause for the police force? What does this say about the responsibility the media has towards society?

Essay Topic 2

How is Anette connected with the case? What role does the author suggest she will play in the book in the future? Why is this role important to the book's meaning?

Essay Topic 3

What makes Wallander such a good detective? What similarities does he share with other fictional detectives? How is he unique from other fictional detectives?

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