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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. In Chapter 11, what time do the investigators from the Violent Crimes Division arrive?

2. In Chapter 14, how much is Levin worth?

3. In Chapter 8, who are sent to help protect Balder?

4. In Chapter 11, what design is on the T-shirt that Salander wears at the Zero boxing club?

5. In Chapter 3, how old is Alona Casales?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what problems are present at the Millennium?

2. In Chapter 9, who do Blom and Flinck nab wandering around outside Balder's house?

3. In Chapter 2, what is Balder's son August like?

4. How does August surprise Balder in Chapter 6?

5. In Chapter 5, how does Plague describe Salander, who he knows as Wasp?

6. In Chapter 4, what does Blomkvist learn about Balder through research on the internet?

7. In Chapter 12, what does Needham say about the hacker who got into the NSA computers?

8. What does Blomkvist see when he is inside Balder's house in Chapter 10?

9. In Chapter 14, what does Levin read about himself, and how does what he reads make him feel?

10. At the end of Chapter 8, why is Grane frustrated when she calls the duty officer for Sapo's Personal Protection Unit?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several parent/child relationships are described in the novel. What abusive child/parent relationships are revealed in the novel? What stable parent/child relationship are revealed in the novel? How do parent/child relationship affect the maturation of children and how they become adults?

Essay Topic 2

August starts to speak. Previously it was thought that he was mute. What is implied as a cause for August being mute? Why is it significant that August starts to speak?

Essay Topic 3

Holtser does not kill August when he first has the opportunity, and later he regrets that he is being forced to kill the boy. What does the author communicate about a code of conduct through Holtser and his regrets?

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