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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. What does Arve give to Katrine when he leaves in Chapter 24?
(a) His keys.
(b) His business number.
(c) His phone number.
(d) His address.

2. Why did Laila take her daughter to see Mathias?
(a) Stiff joints.
(b) Head pains.
(c) Dizziness.
(d) Vomiting.

3. In the end of the novel, the psychiatrist indicates that everyone is sick with personality disorders. What does he say defines how sick we are?
(a) Our thoughts.
(b) Our desires.
(c) Our words.
(d) Our actions.

4. Who calls Harry in Chapter 31 to inform him that another body had been found?
(a) Mathias.
(b) Skarre.
(c) Idar.
(d) Hagen.

5. Where did the car roll after Mathias hit his mother over the head?
(a) Into the ocean.
(b) Into the lake.
(c) Into the river.
(d) Into a swamp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Arve meet Katrine in Chapter 24?

2. Who does Harry tell he thinks that Katrine is the Snowman in Chapter 28?

3. Where does Katrine force Arve in Chapter 25?

4. How is the body of the Snowman's latest victim described in Chapter 32?

5. What did Mathias plan to do before his impending death overtook him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Harry protect himself from Katrine in Chapter 29?

2. What is Mathias's relationship to Idar?

3. When did Sylvia contact Arve about children that belonged to him? What did she say?

4. How do Harry and Bjørn manage to save Arve in Chapter 26?

5. What is the significance of the Swedish study on genetics in the novel?

6. Who is Ståle Aune and what is his relationship to Harry?

7. What does Harry discover at the Anatomy Department in Chapter 32?

8. In what ways is the storyline of The Snowman nonlinear?

9. What does Harry tell the police psychiatrist in Chapter 30?

10. What does Filip tell Jonas in Chapter 37?

(see the answer keys)

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