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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 happens to the government official who investigates the murders of a calypso singer's sister and a European woman?
(a) He is electrocuted by his refrigerator.
(b) He is bribed to discontinue his investigation.
(c) He moves to Europe.
(d) He disappears.

2. According to the narrator in Section 3, what has become a tourist attraction?
(a) Antigua's beauty.
(b) Antiguans' degradation.
(c) Antigua's historical monuments.
(d) Antiguans' poverty.

3. What happens to honest ministers which encourages other ministers to be corrupt?
(a) They must stand trial for treason before the Antiguan government.
(b) They are mocked and ridiculed.
(c) They are murdered.
(d) They suffer poverty after their term ends.

4. What is held to raise funds to repair the library?
(a) A bake sale.
(b) An auction.
(c) A Teenage Pageant.
(d) An exhibition.

5. What charge is the second Prime Minister imprisoned for?
(a) Cheating on his spouse.
(b) Lying to the Antiguan people.
(c) Using his office for personal profit.
(d) Murdering government officials.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in charge of the Treasury, Tourism and Public Works?

2. Who is notorious for voicing their opinions and supporting the second successful political party that Antigua has?

3. Who may relent and assist in building a new library?

4. How does the narrator describe the English?

5. Whose suspicions of the narrator as a child were justified?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does the Antigua of the present compare to the Antigua of the past?

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

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

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