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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 Hana use to rebuild the parts of missing staircases in the villa?
(a) Suitcases.
(b) Bodies.
(c) Books.
(d) Pots and pans.

2. Why do the English patient and his companions have to move during the night?
(a) So they do not get dehydrated.
(b) To escape from plunderers.
(c) To avoid reptiles.
(d) To keep from getting buried by sand.

3. Where does Hana get her vegetables?
(a) The market.
(b) Kip brings them.
(c) The cellar.
(d) Her garden.

4. During what time period is the English patient a great explorer of Africa?
(a) The 1900's.
(b) The 1930's.
(c) The 1940's.
(d) The 1970's.

5. Why does Caravaggio sneak into the room of the German general?
(a) To hide from his enemies.
(b) To kill him while he sleeps.
(c) To steal the camera.
(d) To spy on him throughout the night.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Caravaggio find and play music on?

3. When in Chapter 5 does the English patient suffer?

4. Why have Kip and his partner come to the villa?

5. Which of the following is mentioned in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What purpose does the piano serve in the villa?

4. In addition to the plane, what else comes along with the plane? Why is this important?

5. What impact has the war had on Hana?

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

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

8. How does the entry of Geoffrey Clinton into the story change the plot?

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

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

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