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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 many Prime Ministers has Antigua had in its thirty years as a self-governing nation?
(a) 30.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.
2. What does the narrator speak about to the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?
(a) Purchasing Antigua's slave records.
(b) Restoring the library.
(c) Electing a new Prime Minister.
(d) Her family's history.
3. Whose beautiful poorness is unreal?
(a) The English's.
(b) The narrator's.
(c) The villages'.
(d) The slaves'.
4. When do the African slaves cease to be noble and exalted?
(a) They never cease to be noble and exalted.
(b) After emancipation.
(c) When they are brought to Antigua.
(d) They are never noble and exalted.
5. Who are ordinary people, according to the author in Section 4?
(a) The Syrians.
(b) No one is ordinary.
(c) Antiguans.
(d) The foreigners who lives in Antigua.
Short Answer Questions
1. When the English leave Antigua, what do the slaveholders become?
2. What charge is the second Prime Minister imprisoned for?
3. Who is the Queen's stand-in in Antigua before the island becomes self-governing?
4. What is Bird's ruthless son dying from?
5. What does the narrator praise in Section 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator compare to Antigua in Section 4, and how does she use this analogy?
2. How does the Antigua of the present compare to the Antigua of the past?
3. When the narrator decides to speak to the lady whose family helped establish the Mill Reef Club, what does the lady say, and how does the narrator feel about this?
4. In Section 4, which characters are static, and which characters are dynamic?
5. What do the Syrians and Lebanese do in Antigua?
6. When the narrator was a child, what did the head librarian suspect, and what does the narrator say about these suspicions?
7. Why does the narrator consider what the island's beauty must do to the natives?
8. How does Section 4 begin as a panegyric, and how does it change?
9. How are slaves and slaveholders viewed by the narrator in Section 4?
10. Where is the library now situated, and what is happening with the books, according to Section 3?
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