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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes the Antiguans feel superior to foreigners?
(a) Their better breeding.
(b) Their more attractive looks.
(c) Their vast intelligence.
(d) Nothing.

2. In comparison to Antigua, how are the nearby islands viewed?
(a) As too green.
(b) As too rainy.
(c) As too dry.
(d) As too brown.

3. What does the author say in Section 2 that the English steal from the Antiguans?
(a) Land.
(b) Money.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Children.

4. What do the tourists swim with?
(a) The leftovers from their breakfast.
(b) Lifeguards watching over them.
(c) Sharks that come near shore.
(d) The contents of their flushed toilets.

5. What has changed since the narrator's youth?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Slavery has been abolished.
(c) The Antiguan government.
(d) Antigua.

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

7. Who do the tourists wonder at?
(a) The natives.
(b) The English.
(c) Themselves.
(d) The narrator.

8. Who loves England so much that they leave and never return?
(a) No one.
(b) Americans.
(c) Antiguans.
(d) The English.

9. Who is the object of the narrator's reminiscences named after?
(a) No one.
(b) The first Prime Minister of Antigua.
(c) An English maritime criminal.
(d) Her father.

10. Who owns the first mansion described in Section 1?
(a) A drug dealer.
(b) A Middle Eastern family.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Evita.

11. What does the Czechoslovakian refugee require his wife to do?
(a) Inspect his patients before he treats them.
(b) Cook him dinner every night.
(c) Interview his clients.
(d) Work as a maid.

12. What do the Antiguans celebrate as a holiday?
(a) Queen Victoria's birthday.
(b) Their emancipation.
(c) The founding of the Mill Reef Club.
(d) The day that Antigua became a country.

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

14. Who owns much of Antigua?
(a) Evita.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The Middle Eastern family.
(d) A drug smuggler.

15. Who does not realize the cruelty of their actions concerning slavery?
(a) The English.
(b) The Antiguans.
(c) The tourists.
(d) The narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would become very important if there was a car accident?

2. As a child, how did the narrator feel about the Government House?

3. How are the tourists transported to their resorts?

4. Who does the narrator pity?

5. Where is Queen Victoria's death celebrated?

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