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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In regard to the laws that the narrator recalls being passed, what do the English have difficulty determining?
(a) What to do about books that people already own.
(b) How much money to take.
(c) Who is a native Antiguan.
(d) What language is abusive.

2. What does the narrator reminisce about near the beginning of Section 2?
(a) Attending elementary school.
(b) The streets she grew up on.
(c) Her first marriage.
(d) Her family life.

3. What do the tourists swim with?
(a) The leftovers from their breakfast.
(b) Sharks that come near shore.
(c) The contents of their flushed toilets.
(d) Lifeguards watching over them.

4. Where do the tourists finally arrive in Section 1?
(a) In Antigua.
(b) At their resort.
(c) At the narrator's house.
(d) At the hotel.

5. Who are presented as the antagonists of Section 2?
(a) The narrator and her family.
(b) The tourists.
(c) The English.
(d) Antiguans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not work for the Barclay Brothers for a long time?

2. Who is the Queen's stand-in in Antigua before the island becomes self-governing?

3. What do the Barclay Brothers open to sustain their wealth?

4. What do the Antiguans celebrate as a holiday?

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

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