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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who serves as Prime Minister for twenty-five of Antigua's thirty years as a self-governing nation?
(a) The librarian.
(b) Vere Cornwall Bird.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Victor Cornelius Birdman.

2. How long have the owners of the first mansion lived in Antigua?
(a) Six months.
(b) Two years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Five weeks.

3. Who do the tourists see as superior to the natives and their ancestors?
(a) No one.
(b) The English.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Themselves and their ancestors.

4. What are the Antiguans still being extorted for?
(a) Moral reasons.
(b) For amusement.
(c) They are not being extorted.
(d) Pecuniary gains.

5. What does the lush vegetation of the neighboring islands indicate?
(a) The health of the island.
(b) The lack of rain.
(c) The likelihood of rain.
(d) The lack of health on the island.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the swindler from the Far East help build?

2. Who is the object of the narrator's reminiscences named after?

3. What has changed since the narrator's youth?

4. Who arrives in Antigua at the beginning of Section 1?

5. How did the Barclay Brothers earn their wealth?

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