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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the tourists not consider when swimming in the sea?
(a) The possibility of sunburn.
(b) How cold it is.
(c) The risk of drowning.
(d) The lack of a sewage system.

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

4. Who does not realize the cruelty of their actions concerning slavery?
(a) The tourists.
(b) The English.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The Antiguans.

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

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

7. How do the Antiguans feel about the owners of the first mansion?
(a) They love them.
(b) They are jealous of them.
(c) They hate them.
(d) They are close friends.

8. How do people arrive in Antigua at the beginning of Section 1?
(a) By V. C. Bird Marina.
(b) By boat.
(c) By V. C. Bird International Airport.
(d) By parachuting in.

9. What do the English condemn?
(a) Their supposed superiority.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The Antiguans' barbarity.
(d) Their attempts at Enlightenment.

10. How long have the owners of the first mansion lived in Antigua?
(a) Five weeks.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Six months.

11. Who are presented as the protagonists of Section 2?
(a) Antiguans.
(b) The narrator and her family.
(c) The English.
(d) The tourists.

12. What do the Antiguans celebrate as a holiday?
(a) The day that Antigua became a country.
(b) Queen Victoria's birthday.
(c) The founding of the Mill Reef Club.
(d) Their emancipation.

13. Who do the tourists see as superior to the natives and their ancestors?
(a) The English.
(b) No one.
(c) Themselves and their ancestors.
(d) The narrator.

14. What is done so that the English Princess will have a favorable impression of Antigua?
(a) English flags are flown from every possible pole.
(b) The natives are gathered for a parade.
(c) The streets and buildings are repaired.
(d) The hotel is lavishly decorated.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator recall seeing disappear behind the walls of the Government House?

2. What does the sign on the front of the library claim?

3. What makes the Antiguans feel superior to foreigners?

4. How are the tourists transported to their resorts?

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

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