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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) Their favorite football team.
(b) The Redonda stamps.
(c) Rebuilding the library.
(d) Building the West Indies Oil Refinery.

2. Who is not permitted time on the radio to defend themselves?
(a) Opposition parties.
(b) The narrator and her mother.
(c) The Antiguan government.
(d) The English.

3. What is more exaggerated in a small place like Antigua?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Slavery and emancipation.
(c) The ambiguity of events.
(d) The corruption of government.

4. Who owns the car dealerships in Antigua?
(a) The Prime Minster.
(b) The swindler from the Far East.
(c) Ministers of government.
(d) The narrator.

5. What either frightens or thrills the tourists?
(a) The waves on the beach.
(b) The lack of rain.
(c) Landing in Antigua.
(d) The drivers' carelessness.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the second Prime Minister's term, what happened to the sugar industry?

2. Who does the narrator see as innocent and naïve?

3. Who owns the second mansion described in Section 1?

4. How many Prime Ministers has Antigua had in its thirty years as a self-governing nation?

5. What does the lush vegetation of the neighboring islands indicate?

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