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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was the second mansion paid for?
(a) Through a loan.
(b) It is not paid for.
(c) In cash.
(d) No one knows.

2. Who owns the second mansion described in Section 1?
(a) A Middle Eastern family.
(b) Evita.
(c) An infamous drug smuggler.
(d) The narrator.

3. Who tries to overcharge the tourists?
(a) The hotel manager.
(b) The taxi drivers.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The pilot.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the tourists finally arrive in Section 1?

2. When is the resentment of a crime less effective and more degrading?

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

4. Who are presented as the antagonists of Section 2?

5. What laws does the narrator recall being passed in her youth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the taxi driver in Section 1.

2. How does the narrator view tourists, as described in Section 1?

3. How do tourists view Antigua in comparison to nearby islands, and why?

4. Describe the Mill Reef Club.

5. What role does language play in Section 2?

6. How does the narrator say Antiguans feel about capitalism, and why?

7. In Section 2, what laws does the narrator recall, and what complicated these laws?

8. How does the narrator feel about Europeans, as described in Section 1?

9. What does the taxi driver tell the tourists about the second mansion in Section 1?

10. How does the Czechoslovakian refugee earn his living, and how does he feel about native Antiguans?

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