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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Daniel Olsson?
(a) Salander's old boyfriend.
(b) A freelance journalist in Goteborg.
(c) Blomkvist's old college roommate.
(d) Salander's current boyfriend.

2. Why does Blomkvist buy untraceable phones in Chapter 8?
(a) He knows his phones are tapped.
(b) Too many reporters have his number.
(c) Too many fans are trying to call his regular line.
(d) He can't afford real ones.

3. When does the story of "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" pick up?
(a) The reader isn't sure since these novels aren't connected.
(b) Before the first novel in the series begins; it's a flashback novel.
(c) The day after the ending of the previous novel.
(d) Thirty years after the ending of the previous novel.

4. What do the officers mostly want to discuss with Zalachenko when they first come to question him?
(a) Niedermann.
(b) Where he got all his money from.
(c) Who he really is -- they aren't sure.
(d) What his role in the government was.

5. What is the only thing Zalachenko wants to discuss when the police come to question him for the first time?
(a) When he will be let go.
(b) The fact that his daughter tried to kill him.
(c) How much money he had stolen from him.
(d) If Salander is okay or not; he is worried about her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the trilogy that "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" is a part of?

2. How does Zalachenko view Jonas Sandberg when he first meets him?

3. How can Salander and Annika's relationship best be described in Chapter 9?

4. What does Zalachenko tell Sandberg he wants?

5. Whose sister is Annika Giannini?

Short Essay Questions

1. What job does Ghidi do for Blomkvist?

2. What injuries does Zalachenko have when he arrives at the hospital in Chapter 1?

3. What does the reader learn about the Section's role in having Salander committed to St. Stefan's in Chapter 5?

4. Why does Gullberg shoot himself in Chapter 7?

5. What is Gullberg's background with the Security Police?

6. Why does Modig urge the police to give Blomkvist the benefit of the doubt in Chapter 2 about Salander?

7. Why does Blomkvist decide not to publish Svennson's book about sex trafficking until Salander's trial begins?

8. What was Gullberg able to do in the SSA at the peak of his power?

9. What realizations does Salander have when she is being questioned by the police in Chapter 6?

10. How are things going at SMP at the end of Chapter 12?

(see the answer keys)

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