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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. Who is suspected of murder but never convicted?
(a) V. C. Bird.
(b) Syrians and Lebanese.
(c) Evita.
(d) The narrator.

2. What does the author say in Section 4 is so beautiful that it is unreal?
(a) The natives.
(b) The neighboring islands.
(c) Antigua.
(d) Religion.

3. What do Antiguans call Bird's ruthless son?
(a) Papa Doc.
(b) Doctor Dolittle.
(c) Papa Poverty.
(d) Doctor Jekyl.

4. What is the old library now used as?
(a) The headquarters of a carnival troupe.
(b) A library.
(c) Storage.
(d) A school.

5. What is now situated above a dry-goods store?
(a) The hospital.
(b) The library.
(c) The narrator's life.
(d) The school.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Section 4, who is oppressed?

2. What does Section 4 begin as?

3. What does the narrator speak about to the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?

4. What happens to the government official who investigates the murders of a calypso singer's sister and a European woman?

5. Who has green cards that allow them to escape to the United States?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are slaves and slaveholders viewed by the narrator in Section 4?

3. How are the Antiguans taken advantage of due to their innocence and naivete?

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

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

6. Describe the Redonda stamp scandal.

7. What happens to the acting Governor General when the Governor General goes to Europe in the months before Antigua's carnival?

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

9. What is the purpose of the paradoxical contradiction of the surrealism of Antigua and the ordinariness of the people who live there?

10. In regard to the Bird family, what are Antiguans' concerns, and how are these concerns lessened?

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