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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. When does Chapter 29 take place?

2. In Chapter 50, what time does the doorbell ring at the Krohn's?

3. What does Harry buy before he drives north in Chapter 39?

4. When Alexandra shows Sung-min the trousers Harry gave her, what chance does she say the blood is Rakel's?

5. What color drinking glass in Rakel's dishwasher has prints and saliva from an unknown male?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Harry say that the killer murdered Rakel around 20:15?

2. What information does Kaja find in an old case that relates to Bohr?

3. What does Harry do after he thinks he should commit suicide?

4. How does Ringdal avoid charges for driving under the influence after hitting and killing a girl?

5. In Chapter 43, where does Finne confront Dagny?

6. Where are fingerprints of a possible suspect found after Rakel's murder and why does it take so long to find them?

7. Why does Sung-min realize that Winter takes him off the Harry Hole case?

8. How did Harry survive the plunge over the falls and get out of the car?

9. How and why did Bohr kill Waage?

10. When did Bjorn suspect that Gert was not his child, and how did he determine definitively that the boy was not his?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Harry kidnaps Finne and beats a confession out of him. Why does Harry believe he is justified in kidnapping Finne and beating a confession out of him?

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 of Knife? How does the way that the third-person narrator follows different characters influence what readers know about events and characters? How does having the narrator follow different characters help readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 3

Harry struggles with alcohol. How does Harry struggle with alcohol? Is Harry an alcoholic?

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