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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has green cards that allow them to escape to the United States?
(a) All Antiguans.
(b) No one.
(c) All Antiguan ministers of government.
(d) The narrator and her family.

2. How does the author describe how beautiful Antigua was before?
(a) Surreally.
(b) Ordinarily.
(c) It was not beautiful before.
(d) Wonderfully.

3. At the end of Section 4, who still lives in a surreal place?
(a) The English.
(b) Antiguans.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The Prime Minister.

4. Where is the beauty locked up, according to Section 4?
(a) In the Government House.
(b) In the minds of the natives.
(c) In a prison.
(d) In hope and love.

5. What does Section 4 begin as?
(a) A panegyric to the narrator's homeland.
(b) A story about the narrator's past.
(c) A political pamphlet published to overthrow the Antiguan government.
(d) An outcry at the injustices of the Antiguan people.

6. Whose beautiful poorness is unreal?
(a) The narrator's.
(b) The villages'.
(c) The English's.
(d) The slaves'.

7. When do the slaveholders cease to be selfish rubbish?
(a) When they bring slaves to Antigua.
(b) After emancipation.
(c) They are never selfish rubbish.
(d) They never cease to be selfish rubbish.

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

9. Who is notorious for voicing their opinions and supporting the second successful political party that Antigua has?
(a) The lady whose family helped establish the Mill Reef Club.
(b) The narrator's mother.
(c) The headmistress of the girls' school.
(d) The narrator.

10. Where does the narrator's friend travel?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) England.
(c) America.
(d) Antigua.

11. When the English leave Antigua, what do Antiguans cease to be?
(a) A selfish, miserable disease.
(b) Homesick and unhappy.
(c) Noble, exalted slaves.
(d) Ordinary people.

12. What does the author say is lacking to separate Antiguans from the past?
(a) A historical moment.
(b) Time.
(c) Emancipation.
(d) Laws.

13. Who returns to their lands at the end of Section 4?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Slaveholders.
(c) No one.
(d) The narrator.

14. What happens to honest ministers which encourages other ministers to be corrupt?
(a) They must stand trial for treason before the Antiguan government.
(b) They suffer poverty after their term ends.
(c) They are murdered.
(d) They are mocked and ridiculed.

15. According to the narrator in Section 3, what has become a tourist attraction?
(a) Antiguans' poverty.
(b) Antigua's historical monuments.
(c) Antigua's beauty.
(d) Antiguans' degradation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is held to raise funds to repair the library?

2. Why are slaves brought to Antigua?

3. When the English leave Antigua, what do Antiguans become?

4. What kind of characters are the Antiguans?

5. Who is in charge of the Treasury, Tourism and Public Works?

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