The English Patient | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Chapter 1, The Villa

1. During what historical event does this novel take place?

2. What is Hana's profession?

3. What is Kip's profession?

4. Why does Kip originally come to the villa?

5. Where does Hana get her vegetables?

6. What purpose did the villa serve before the English patient arrived there?

7. What is wrong with the English patient?

8. Who rescued the English patient from the desert?

9. What do Hana and the English patient do when they are not talking?

10. How has the war affected the villa when Hana and the English patient first arrive?

11. Why has the library been cordoned off?

12. Where in the villa...
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