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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do North Americans found in Antigua?
(a) A dentist's office.
(b) Barclay Bank.
(c) The Mill Reef Club.
(d) A school for girls.

2. Why is Bird's less ruthless son not a threat to Antiguans?
(a) He is too old.
(b) He is married to a kind woman who will not allow him to be cruel to Antiguans.
(c) He is too opulent to be a true leader.
(d) He is already dead.

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

4. Who in Section 4 is described as submerged in the unreality of Antigua?
(a) Real people.
(b) No one.
(c) The English.
(d) The narrator.

5. During the second Prime Minister's term, what happened to tourism?
(a) It irritated natives.
(b) It went bankrupt.
(c) It improved.
(d) It ceased.

Short Answer Questions

1. What paradoxical contradiction serves to provide another fault of Antigua?

2. Who do the tourists wonder at?

3. What does the author say is the only thing that tourists consider?

4. What do Antiguans worry that the Birds will be unwilling to relinquish?

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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