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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator's mother argue about with the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport?
(a) Rebuilding the library.
(b) Their favorite football team.
(c) The Redonda stamps.
(d) Building the West Indies Oil Refinery.

2. Who do the tourists see as superior to the natives and their ancestors?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The English.
(c) No one.
(d) Themselves and their ancestors.

3. According to the author, where do the tourists behave as normal people?
(a) Everywhere.
(b) There is no such thing as normal people.
(c) At home.
(d) In Antigua.

4. Who does the narrator recall seeing disappear behind the walls of the Government House?
(a) The Queen.
(b) No one.
(c) The Prime Minister.
(d) A putty-faced Princess.

5. Who outbids the Antiguan government at an auction for slave records?
(a) The swindler from the Far East.
(b) The Syrians.
(c) The Lebanese.
(d) The narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the tourists not consider when swimming in the sea?

2. Who owns the first mansion described in Section 1?

3. What do Antiguans call Bird's ruthless son?

4. Who serves as a hyperbolic paradox of the Antiguans?

5. Who is in charge of the Treasury, Tourism and Public Works?

(see the answer key)

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