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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 is Hana's profession?
(a) Nurse.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Secretary.
(d) Social worker.

2. With what group of people do the English patient and his team travel?
(a) The Bedouin.
(b) Afrikaans.
(c) Arabs.
(d) Egyptians.

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

4. How does Caravaggio know Hana?
(a) Hana previously met Caravaggio in a hospital.
(b) Caravaggion is Hana's cousin.
(c) They dated in high school.
(d) He is a friend of her father's.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which unit of the British army is Kip a member of?

3. From what does Caravaggio fall as it explodes?

4. What does Hana think of when she plays the instrument in the library?

5. Why does Kip originally come to the villa?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe Kip and his fascination with religious symbols.

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

8. What event in Chapter 3 brings Hana and Kip closer 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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