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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator hate about a specific group of people?
(a) Their supposed superiority.
(b) Their innocence and naivete.
(c) Their concern for others.
(d) Their friendship with her mother.

2. How do the tourists feel about the three similar objects that they pass?
(a) Curious.
(b) Sad.
(c) Angry.
(d) Happy.

3. What does Section 2 compare and contrast?
(a) Antigua and England.
(b) The tourists and the Antiguans.
(c) Antigua of the past and present.
(d) The English and the narrator.

4. What do the Barclay Brothers open to sustain their wealth?
(a) The library.
(b) The Mill Reef Club.
(c) A dentist's office.
(d) Barclay Bank.

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

6. Who does the narrator say has no language?
(a) Americans.
(b) Antiguans.
(c) Tourists.
(d) English.

7. What do the tourists not consider when swimming in the sea?
(a) How cold it is.
(b) The possibility of sunburn.
(c) The risk of drowning.
(d) The lack of a sewage system.

8. What does the narrator say that Antiguans do not seem to realize?
(a) That Queen Victoria is dead.
(b) That Queen Victoria was English.
(c) That many foreigners are loyal to Antigua.
(d) That many foreigners are racist.

9. What does the sign on the front of the library claim?
(a) Open for business.
(b) Repairs are pending.
(c) No women allowed.
(d) No natives allowed.

10. What does the narrator pity?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The ruined empire of the English.
(c) The demolished library.
(d) The poverty of Antiguans.

11. What do the natives do that the tourists do not suspect?
(a) Steal from them.
(b) Murder them.
(c) Mock them.
(d) Stalk them.

12. What does the narrator reminisce about near the beginning of Section 2?
(a) Her family life.
(b) The streets she grew up on.
(c) Attending elementary school.
(d) Her first marriage.

13. Who does the narrator recall seeing disappear behind the walls of the Government House?
(a) No one.
(b) The Prime Minister.
(c) A putty-faced Princess.
(d) The Queen.

14. As a child, how did the narrator feel about the Government House?
(a) Disgusted.
(b) Awed.
(c) Happy.
(d) Frightened.

15. What is extremely dynamic in Antigua?
(a) The tourists.
(b) The English.
(c) The culture and lifestyles.
(d) The narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the lush vegetation of the neighboring islands indicate?

2. How are the tourists transported to their resorts?

3. How was the second mansion paid for?

4. Who loves England so much that they leave and never return?

5. What is harder for Antiguans to get than car loans?

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