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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 pity?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The poverty of Antiguans.
(c) The demolished library.
(d) The ruined empire of the English.

2. What happens to honest ministers which encourages other ministers to be corrupt?
(a) They must stand trial for treason before the Antiguan government.
(b) They are mocked and ridiculed.
(c) They suffer poverty after their term ends.
(d) They are murdered.

3. How does the author describe all tourists?
(a) As stupid.
(b) As ugly.
(c) As attractive.
(d) As friendly.

4. What are the Antiguans still being extorted for?
(a) They are not being extorted.
(b) For amusement.
(c) Moral reasons.
(d) Pecuniary gains.

5. Who does not work for the Barclay Brothers for a long time?
(a) A black person.
(b) A woman.
(c) The narrator.
(d) A man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the tourists originally think the school is?

2. What does the author say in Section 2 that the English teach the Antiguans?

3. Why are the natives jealous of the tourists?

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

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

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