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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 brought Africans to Antigua?
2. Why is Bird's less ruthless son not a threat to Antiguans?
3. Whose voice does the narrator utilize?
4. Who is freed in a way when the English leave Antigua?
5. Why does the narrator think Antigua is in worse condition as a self-ruled nation?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the purpose of the paradoxical contradiction of the surrealism of Antigua and the ordinariness of the people who live there?
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. Where is the library now situated, and what is happening with the books, according to Section 3?
5. When are Africans brought to Antigua, by whom, and why?
6. What does the narrator say about small events which occur in small places?
7. When was Antigua discovered and by whom?
8. What does the narrator's friend say about Switzerland, and how does the narrator feel about this?
9. How does the Antigua of the present compare to the Antigua of the past?
10. How does the narrator describe Antigua at the beginning of Section 4?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the Antiguans and the tourists.
Essay Topic 2
What is the significance of wealth in this book? What events are driven by wealth and poverty? How are the people in Antigua viewed based on their pecuniary success?
Essay Topic 3
How does the first-person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the book? How would the book be different if a different point-of-view were used?
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