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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the government official who investigates the murders of a calypso singer's sister and a European woman?
(a) He is bribed to discontinue his investigation.
(b) He moves to Europe.
(c) He disappears.
(d) He is electrocuted by his refrigerator.

2. What do the English praise?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Their supposed superiority.
(c) Their own efforts toward Enlightenment.
(d) The Antiguans' barbarity.

3. Why is the narrator offended by the reference to "her girls," as stated by the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?
(a) Because her girls are illiterate.
(b) Because the lady states that her girls should get married young.
(c) Because "her girls" are grown Antiguan women.
(d) Because the lady discourages her girls from reading.

4. What is established to promote better wages, working conditions and life for Antiguans?
(a) Barclay Bank.
(b) Mill Reef Club.
(c) West Indies Oil Refinery.
(d) Antiguan Trades and Labor Union.

5. Who are presented as the antagonists of Section 2?
(a) Antiguans.
(b) The tourists.
(c) The narrator and her family.
(d) The English.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the tourists transported to their resorts?

2. What is admired about the island?

3. What do the Antiguans celebrate as a holiday?

4. When the English leave Antigua, what do the slaveholders become?

5. What does the sign on the front of the library claim?

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