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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. What laws does the narrator recall being passed in her youth?

2. Who do the tourists see as superior to the natives and their ancestors?

3. Who are presented as the antagonists of Section 2?

4. What does the author say in Section 2 that the English steal from the Antiguans?

5. When is the resentment of a crime less effective and more degrading?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the narrator feel about the Governor House as a child, and what did she see there?

2. How does the Czechoslovakian refugee earn his living, and how does he feel about native Antiguans?

3. How does the narrator feel about the English at the beginning of Section 2?

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

5. How does the narrator say Antiguans feel about capitalism, and why?

6. How do the natives feel about the tourists?

7. What do tourists think about when they notice the expensive Japanese cars?

8. How does modern Antigua compare to the Antigua of the narrator's youth?

9. What do the tourists think about the natives?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the main themes in this book and detail its recurrences throughout the book. What does it add to the book? How does it affect the different people described in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Which groups of people are present in the book as the protagonist and the antagonist? Why?

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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