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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 is the purpose of Chapter 4?
(a) To help the reader understand his relationship with Caravaggio.
(b) To provide a description of the setting.
(c) To reveal more information about the English patient's past.
(d) To provide some distraction from the villa scenes.

2. Why is Kip fascinated by Christian symbols?
(a) They speak to him in his dreams.
(b) The artwork is made of gold.
(c) They always depict beautiful women.
(d) He has never been exposed to them before.

3. Who enters the room as Hana plays on the instrument in the library?
(a) A dog.
(b) Two soldiers.
(c) The English patient.
(d) Caravaggio.

4. Where does Katharine tell her lover they must end their affair?
(a) The botanical garden.
(b) In the villa.
(c) Inside the tent.
(d) By the piano.

5. What does Clinton let the English patient use to make exploration easier?
(a) His metal detector.
(b) His radio.
(c) His automobile.
(d) His plane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Clinton bring with him to the exploration?

2. What animal comes into the English patient's bedroom?

3. Why does Kip originally come to the villa?

4. Which character appears in Chapter 5 in a flashback?

5. How is the English patient identified in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the English patient's reaction to Katharine's decision to end the affair.

2. Though the English patient's profession is not overtly given, what do you think he does for a living? Why?

3. What do you think of the relationship between Hana and the English patient by the end of Chapter 1? Why?

4. Describe the significance of the Geographical Society in the story.

5. How and why is Caravaggio tortured by the Germans?

6. Describe Hana's conversation with Caravaggio in the library after Kip and his partner arrive at the villa.

7. How does the narrator recount the English patient's adventures in the desert?

8. Describe the scene in the English patient's room before Kip's partner dies.

9. Describe Hana's daily life in the villa.

10. Describe how Caravaggio finds out that Hana is at the villa.

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