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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Section 4, who is the oppressor?
(a) African slaveholders.
(b) English slaveholders.
(c) African slaves.
(d) English slaves.

2. According to the narrator, what do Americans constantly complain about?
(a) The lack of sewage system in Antigua.
(b) The drier climate of Antigua.
(c) Nothing.
(d) How much they miss England.

3. Who serves as a hyperbolic paradox of the Antiguans?
(a) The English.
(b) The foreigners.
(c) The tourists.
(d) The narrator.

4. When is the resentment of a crime less effective and more degrading?
(a) When it is non-verbal.
(b) When it is expressed in the criminals' language.
(c) Never.
(d) When the victim cries during the expression of their resentment.

5. Who are ordinary people, according to the author in Section 4?
(a) The foreigners who lives in Antigua.
(b) No one is ordinary.
(c) Antiguans.
(d) The Syrians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the swindler from the Far East help build?

2. How was the second mansion paid for?

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

4. How does the narrator describe the Africans?

5. What happens to the government official who investigates the murders of a calypso singer's sister and a European woman?

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