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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 year does Kip work with his mentor and his secretary?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1914.

2. In Chapter 6, who does the English patient begin to talk to about his past?
(a) Kip.
(b) Caravaggio.
(c) Hana.
(d) No one.

3. Who does Kip threaten to kill near the end of the novel?
(a) Himself.
(b) The British prime minister.
(c) The English patient.
(d) Hana.

4. Why does Caravaggio give the English patient what he does in Chapter 6?
(a) To help relieve the pain.
(b) To help him relax.
(c) In order to encourage him to talk.
(d) To give him some confidence.

5. Kip tells a story to Caravaggio about dismantling a bomb where?
(a) Inside his shirt.
(b) In a pit.
(c) In the plane.
(d) The bottom of a lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Caravaggio suspect the English patient is?

2. What does Madox do in the middle of a sermon about war?

3. Where does Kip's brother go instead?

4. What special occasion occurs at the beginning of Chapter 10?

5. What did the English patient wrap around Katharine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What revelation does Kip have regarding his tendency to seek out affectionate relationships?

2. How does Katharine die?

3. How is prejudice brought up in Chapter 7?

4. Is it surprising to you to find out that the English patient was a spy during the war? Why or why not?

5. What do you think it would be like to be Geoffrey Clifton in this story? Why?

6. Why do you think Caravaggio is so eager to disprove the English patient's identity?

7. Describe the scene in Naples that Kip tells to Hana.

8. How is the symbol of the Western religious icon brought into Chapter 10?

9. Explain how the English patient came to be severely burned.

10. Do you find that Kip becomes more or less likable as the novel comes to an end? Why?

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