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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what do Americans constantly complain about?
(a) The lack of sewage system in Antigua.
(b) How much they miss England.
(c) The drier climate of Antigua.
(d) Nothing.

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

3. Who does the narrator pity?
(a) The tourists.
(b) The Antiguans.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The English.

4. What does the lush vegetation of the neighboring islands indicate?
(a) The health of the island.
(b) The lack of health on the island.
(c) The likelihood of rain.
(d) The lack of rain.

5. Who constantly rebukes children for behaving like monkeys?
(a) The Barclay Brothers.
(b) The founders of the Mill Reef Club.
(c) The headmistress of the girls' school.
(d) The Czechoslovakian refugee.

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

7. What laws does the narrator recall being passed in her youth?
(a) Laws to prevent abusive language.
(b) Laws to prevent natives from entering public buildings.
(c) Laws prohibiting women from reading.
(d) Laws allowing the government to embezzle money.

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

9. What language do Antiguans speak?
(a) English.
(b) Latin.
(c) Antiguan.
(d) African.

10. Who does Kincaid say is a potential tourist?
(a) No one.
(b) Antiguans.
(c) Every native.
(d) The narrator.

11. What does the author say in Section 2 that the English steal from the Antiguans?
(a) Children.
(b) Land.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Money.

12. Who owns the second mansion described in Section 1?
(a) Evita.
(b) An infamous drug smuggler.
(c) The narrator.
(d) A Middle Eastern family.

13. What is named after an English Princess?
(a) The school.
(b) The airport.
(c) The library.
(d) The hospital.

14. What kind of cars are predominant in Antigua?
(a) Family-friendly station wagons.
(b) Flashy convertibles.
(c) Police cars.
(d) Expensive Japanese cars.

15. Who do the tourists wonder at?
(a) The English.
(b) The natives.
(c) Themselves.
(d) The narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. In comparison to Antigua, how are the nearby islands viewed?

2. Who is the object of the narrator's reminiscences named after?

3. What does the narrator say that Antiguans do not seem to realize?

4. Who condemns the tourists' lack of concern?

5. What does the narrator hate about a specific group of people?

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