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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the Antiguan utility companies set up?
(a) There are no utility companies in Antigua.
(b) As competitive entities.
(c) As monopolies.
(d) They are owned by Americans who visit Antigua on vacation.

2. In regard to the laws that the narrator recalls being passed, what do the English have difficulty determining?
(a) What to do about books that people already own.
(b) What language is abusive.
(c) Who is a native Antiguan.
(d) How much money to take.

3. What does the narrator criticize about Antigua in Section 4?
(a) The grass and cows.
(b) The government.
(c) The Antiguans' stupidity.
(d) The efforts at Enlightenment made by the English.

4. What does the author say is the only thing that tourists consider?
(a) The comfort of the natives.
(b) Their desires.
(c) Their own comfort.
(d) The desires of the natives.

5. What do the tourists swim with?
(a) Lifeguards watching over them.
(b) The leftovers from their breakfast.
(c) Sharks that come near shore.
(d) The contents of their flushed toilets.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Barclay Brothers earn their wealth?

2. Who are presented as the protagonists of Section 2?

3. Whose girlfriend is the owner of the third mansion?

4. Who in Section 4 is described as submerged in the unreality of Antigua?

5. As a child, how did the narrator feel about the Government House?

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