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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. Why does Caravaggio decide he must find out the English patient's identity?
(a) So he can publish a book.
(b) He wants Hana to know who he is.
(c) He wants to be able to keep in touch with him after he leaves.
(d) So he can write the patient's family a letter.

2. What does Hana think of when she plays the instrument in the library?
(a) Her childhood.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her children.

3. What is Kip's profession?
(a) Pilot.
(b) Captain.
(c) Chef.
(d) Sapper.

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

5. What is foreshadowed in Chapter 5?
(a) The reconciliation between the English patient and Katharine.
(b) The birth of the English patient's child.
(c) The English patient talking more about Katharine and how their relationship ended.
(d) The English patient's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who falls in love with the English patient at the beginning of Chapter 5?

2. Why does Hana say it became difficult to deal with her patients?

3. Where in the villa does Hana sleep?

4. What game does Hana play in the villa?

5. What does his lover say to the English patient in response?

Short Essay Questions

1. What activities do Hana and the English patient do together?

2. How is the topic of companionship explored in Chapter 4?

3. Describe how Hana and the English patient come to know each other.

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

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

6. What impact has the war had on Hana?

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

8. What is Hana's reaction to Caravaggio's arrival at the villa?

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

10. How would you describe the relationship between Katharine and the English patient?

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