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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 does Kip find in the garden?
(a) A bomb.
(b) A ring.
(c) A cat.
(d) The English patient's journal.

2. Which character appears in Chapter 5 in a flashback?
(a) Hana.
(b) Hana's father.
(c) Caravaggio.
(d) Katharine.

3. What do Hana and Caravaggio hear one night as they are walking?
(a) Land mines exploding.
(b) The English patient, screaming.
(c) Gunfire in the distance.
(d) Coyotes.

4. What year does Geoffrey Clinton join the exploration?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1929.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hana get her vegetables?

2. How does Kip's partner die?

3. Why does Katharine panic when she is in the desert?

4. What instrument does Hana like to play?

5. When Kip and Caravaggio go into the valley, what does Hana do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the English patient behave when he and Katharine are apart?

2. What is the general purpose of Chapter 4? Is it effective?

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

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

5. How does Chapter 5 foreshadow later events in the novel?

6. What sort of presence does Kip have on the other characters in the villa?

7. How does the relationship between Hana and Kip foreshadow later events in the novel?

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

9. Describe the setting of Chapter 1.

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

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