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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the tourists wonder at?

2. Who owns the first mansion described in Section 1?

3. What are the tourists normally reassured of?

4. In regard to the laws that the narrator recalls being passed, what do the English have difficulty determining?

5. What does the author say in Section 2 that the English teach the Antiguans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do tourists consider, and what do they not consider?

2. According to the narrator at the end of Section 1, what is the association between all tourists and all natives?

3. What does the taxi driver tell the tourists about the second mansion in Section 1?

4. What do the tourists think about the natives?

5. What does the taxi driver tell the tourists about the third mansion in Section 1?

6. How do the tourists react to the hospital, and what is the narrator's opinion about this?

7. How do the English teach the Antiguans crime, according to the narrator in Section 2?

8. How do the Barclay Brothers earn and sustain their wealth?

9. What in Antigua is named after an English Princess, what happens before she visits the island, and why?

10. What role does language play in Section 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the corruption of the Antiguan government impede development in Antigua?

Essay Topic 2

How are the different symbols used throughout the book to represent abstract concepts? Detail and explain how the symbols are used to describe certain abstract concepts and which concepts they describe.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Jamaica Kincaid claim that "all natives are tourists?" How has the condition of the Antiguans changed since their emancipation from slavery?

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