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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. When the rumor of war begins, where does Madox go?
(a) Italy.
(b) Paris.
(c) Back home to see his wife.
(d) The southern coast of England.

2. What/who picks up the English patient in the desert?
(a) A military jeep.
(b) German sappers.
(c) A plane.
(d) An American soldier.

3. Why does Kip become upset in Chapter 10?
(a) His ex-wife has contacted him.
(b) The war is over.
(c) Hiroshima has been bombed.
(d) His children are in danger.

4. How does Kip find out about becoming a sapper?
(a) He sees it in a dream.
(b) His father was a sapper.
(c) He sees it on a flyer.
(d) He reads it in the newspaper.

5. What did Katharine request to borrow from the English patient?
(a) A pencil.
(b) A camera.
(c) A towel.
(d) A book.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many shells of oil are lit in Chapter 10?

2. What does Hana think of Caravaggio giving what he does to the English patient?

3. What happens to Kip in the garden at the villa?

4. In Chapter 6, who does the English patient begin to talk to about his past?

5. Why was the town of Naples evacuated?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Madox dies and why this is significant.

2. How does Katharine die?

3. What do you think it would be like to be Geoffrey Clifton in this story? Why?

4. How does Kip save another life from being lost after Lord Suffolk?

5. How is the symbol of the Western religious icon brought into Chapter 10?

6. In the beginning of Chapter 10, how does Kip prove that he is intentional about making his relationships with others solid?

7. In Chapter 7, what does the reader learn about traditions in Sikh families? How are these traditions different in Kip's family?

8. What does Kip's story about the bomb in a pit represent?

9. Who is Miss Morden? Why is she significant to Kip?

10. Why would Kip share with Caravaggio the story about dismantling a bomb in a pit?

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