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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What either frightens or thrills the tourists?
(a) The drivers' carelessness.
(b) The lack of rain.
(c) Landing in Antigua.
(d) The waves on the beach.

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

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

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

5. What does the author say is the only thing that tourists consider?
(a) Their own comfort.
(b) The desires of the natives.
(c) The comfort of the natives.
(d) Their desires.

6. What is admired about the island?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Its beauty.
(c) Its people.
(d) Its heat.

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

8. Who serves as a hyperbolic paradox of the Antiguans?
(a) The tourists.
(b) The foreigners.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The English.

9. What is the Czechoslovakian refugee trained as?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A dentist.

10. What does the narrator condemn about the tourists in Section 1?
(a) Their shallowness.
(b) Their stupidity.
(c) Their ugliness.
(d) Their vapidity.

11. How do the North Americans feel about native Antiguans?
(a) They always hate them.
(b) They do not think about them at all.
(c) They think of them as family.
(d) They like them only as servants.

12. What do the tourists admire?
(a) The intelligence of the natives.
(b) The cleanliness of the ocean.
(c) The narrator's honesty.
(d) The beauty of Antigua.

13. The tourists try not to dwell on the condition of what public facility?
(a) The mansions.
(b) The police station.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The welfare office.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who condemns the tourists' lack of concern?

2. How do people arrive in Antigua at the beginning of Section 1?

3. What makes the Antiguans feel superior to foreigners?

4. Who owns the first mansion described in Section 1?

5. What does the author say in Section 2 that the English teach the Antiguans?

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