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The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
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Who rescued the patient after he fell, burning, from his airplane?
Sephardic Jews
German soldiers
Roma nomads
Bedouin nomads
2
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What danger pervades the landscape around the villa?
Guerilla combatants
Hidden mines
Sinkholes
Quicksand
3
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What did the nurse stay behind at the villa to do, when all the others left for a safer location?
Finish her studies
Wait for her lover
Care for her patient
Care for orphans
4
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What book serves as the English Patient's notebook?
The Iliad by Homer
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
Works and Days by Hesiod
The Histories by Herodotus
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What does the English Patient teach the Bedouins about, in exchange for the care they gave him?
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