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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the natives jealous of the tourists?
(a) Because the tourists do not have any concerns.
(b) Because they are unable to escape the place that they live.
(c) The natives are not jealous of the tourists.
(d) Because the tourists are from a nicer place.

2. Whose beautiful poorness is unreal?
(a) The narrator's.
(b) The slaves'.
(c) The villages'.
(d) The English's.

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

4. What is Bird's ruthless son dying from?
(a) Starvation.
(b) A blood disease.
(c) Cancer.
(d) A brain tumor.

5. What do the tourists not consider when swimming in the sea?
(a) The possibility of sunburn.
(b) How cold it is.
(c) The risk of drowning.
(d) The lack of a sewage system.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Barclay Brothers earn their wealth?

2. What does the author say is lacking to separate Antiguans from the past?

3. Who does the narrator recall seeing disappear behind the walls of the Government House?

4. What indicates that the building is actually a school?

5. What kind of characters are the Antiguans?

(see the answer key)

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