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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 literary device is used when the English patient is talking about his relationship with Katharine?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Flashback.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Irony.

2. What does Hana tell Kip she imagines doing in the grass?
(a) Building a secret house.
(b) Having a picnic.
(c) Planting lots of vegetables.
(d) Dying in Kip's arms.

3. What game does Hana play in the villa?
(a) Yahtzee.
(b) Poker.
(c) Hopscotch.
(d) Solitaire.

4. Who does Clinton bring with him to the exploration?
(a) No one.
(b) His dog.
(c) His daughter.
(d) His wife.

5. What does the English patient say to his lover when their affair is ending?
(a) That he doesn't love her anymore.
(b) That she will come back to him.
(c) That he will not miss her.
(d) That he plans to kill her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has the library been cordoned off?

2. What purpose did the villa serve before the English patient arrived there?

3. What is the location of the hospital where Caravaggio is staying at the beginning of Chapter 2?

4. What is foreshadowed in Chapter 5?

5. Where does Hana get her vegetables?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Katharine's first reaction when she falls in love with the English patient?

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

3. Why does Katharine decide to breaks off her affair with the English patient?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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