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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. Which of the following describes the English patient's desert exploration?
(a) Relaxing.
(b) Dreary.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Boring.

2. Why does Caravaggio decide he must find out the English patient's identity?
(a) So he can write the patient's family a letter.
(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 publish a book.

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

4. How is the English patient's love affair described?
(a) Passionate and violent.
(b) Distant and removed.
(c) Gentle and secretive.
(d) Conspicuous and flamboyant.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who decides to end the love affair?

2. Why has the library been cordoned off?

3. What organization does the English patient belong to?

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

5. What does Caravaggio find and play music on?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What impact has the war had on Hana?

8. Describe the setting of Chapter 1.

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

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

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