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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. When do the African slaves cease to be noble and exalted?
(a) When they are brought to Antigua.
(b) They never cease to be noble and exalted.
(c) After emancipation.
(d) They are never noble and exalted.

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

3. What is Bird's ruthless son dying from?
(a) Starvation.
(b) A brain tumor.
(c) A blood disease.
(d) Cancer.

4. Who owns much land in Antigua?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Evita.
(c) Syrians and Lebanese.
(d) The Prime Minister.

5. Who is not permitted time on the radio to defend themselves?
(a) Opposition parties.
(b) The narrator and her mother.
(c) The English.
(d) The Antiguan government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adds to the surrealism of the island, according to Section 4?

2. Who considers what being real people submerged in the unreality of Antigua must do to the people?

3. Who are ordinary people, according to the author in Section 4?

4. What does the swindler from the Far East help build?

5. In Section 4, who is the oppressor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator compare to Antigua in Section 4, and how does she use this analogy?

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

3. Why do all Antiguan ministers possess green cards, and what happens to honest ministers?

4. When was Antigua discovered and by whom?

5. Describe the Redonda stamp scandal.

6. What does the narrator say about small events which occur in small places?

7. What do the Syrians and Lebanese do in Antigua?

8. How does Section 4 begin as a panegyric, and how does it change?

9. What does the narrator's friend say about Switzerland, and how does the narrator feel about this?

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

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