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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who warned the English patient to be careful about his love for Katharine?
(a) Katharine.
(b) Madox.
(c) Clifton.
(d) Kip.

2. What did the English patient wrap around Katharine?
(a) A parachute.
(b) A towel.
(c) A blanket.
(d) A sheet.

3. What does Katharine do to make the English patient fall in love with her?
(a) Writes a poem.
(b) Reads a romantic story.
(c) Dries his hair.
(d) Takes a picture of him.

4. Where does Katharine approach the English patient to tell him how she feels about him?
(a) In his tent.
(b) At mealtime.
(c) By the pond.
(d) At a party.

5. How does the relationship between Kip and Hana change in Chapter 8?
(a) They agree that they are not meant to be together.
(b) They are only friends.
(c) They become lovers.
(d) It is more motherly.

6. Who is Kip's mentor's secretary?
(a) Hana's mother.
(b) Caravaggio's ex-wife.
(c) Mrs. Smith.
(d) Miss Morden.

7. What do Kip and Hana try to find in their game as they move around the villa?
(a) Special foods.
(b) Hidden treasures.
(c) Each other.
(d) The dog.

8. Who has become addicted to morphine?
(a) Madox.
(b) Caravaggio.
(c) Kip.
(d) Hana.

9. To whom does Kip talk to about his brother?
(a) Caravaggio.
(b) Hana.
(c) Lord Suffolk.
(d) The English patient.

10. What do Kip and Hana do after they wash their hair?
(a) Play tennis.
(b) Brush each other's hair.
(c) Have a picnic.
(d) Lay in the sun.

11. Who does Hana use as a pawn?
(a) Herself.
(b) Kip.
(c) The English patient.
(d) Caravaggio.

12. What does the English patient imagine he sees in the middle of the night?
(a) A dog.
(b) A sapper.
(c) A piano.
(d) A small child.

13. How does Lord Suffolk die?
(a) The doctors aren't sure.
(b) A car crash.
(c) He kills himself.
(d) A bomb explosion.

14. What was Kip given when he was visited during a dangerous bomb dismantling?
(a) A Bible.
(b) Water and ice.
(c) Cake and cologne.
(d) Lavender.

15. Who once came to Kip during a dangerous bomb dismantling?
(a) Miss Morden.
(b) His parents.
(c) Mrs. Smith.
(d) His brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kip retrieve from his tent in the garden at the villa when he is upset?

2. Why did the English patient refer to Katharine as his wife?

3. When the rumor of war begins, where does Madox go?

4. What does the English patient find in the Cave of Swimmers?

5. What does Caravaggio knock off the table at the beginning of Chapter 8?

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