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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. What is more exaggerated in a small place like Antigua?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Slavery and emancipation.
(c) The ambiguity of events.
(d) The corruption of government.

2. Whose suspicions of the narrator as a child were justified?
(a) The headmistress of the narrator's school.
(b) The head librarian's.
(c) The narrator's mother's.
(d) The Primer Minister's.

3. What does the narrator criticize about Antigua in Section 4?
(a) The government.
(b) The Antiguans' stupidity.
(c) The efforts at Enlightenment made by the English.
(d) The grass and cows.

4. How does the narrator describe the pain of Antiguans?
(a) As sad.
(b) As irritating.
(c) As unreal.
(d) As nonexistent.

5. How does the narrator describe the English?
(a) As excited to experience new things.
(b) As disheartened and homesick.
(c) As rubbish and a selfish, miserable disease.
(d) As noble and exalted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is not permitted time on the radio to defend themselves?

2. What does a government official condone during a radio appearance?

3. Why does the narrator think Antigua is in worse condition as a self-ruled nation?

4. When the English leave Antigua, what do the slaveholders become?

5. Who returns to their lands at the end of Section 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Section 4, which characters are static, and which characters are dynamic?

2. What is said about casinos is Section 3, and what will actually occur, according to the narrator?

3. What happens when the English leave Antigua at the end of Section 4?

4. Describe the only two Prime Ministers that Antigua has had in the thirty years that it has been a self-governing nation.

5. Why does the narrator consider what the island's beauty must do to the natives?

6. Where is the library now situated, and what is happening with the books, according to Section 3?

7. How are the slaves and slaveholders compared in Section 4?

8. In Section 4, what role does emancipation play?

9. When the narrator was a child, what did the head librarian suspect, and what does the narrator say about these suspicions?

10. When are Africans brought to Antigua, by whom, and why?

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