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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the only offense the Czechoslovakian refugee accepts from his patients?
(a) Their sarcasm.
(b) Their dirtiness.
(c) Their ignorance.
(d) The color of the skin.

5. 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.

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

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

8. The tourists try not to dwell on the condition of what public facility?
(a) The mansions.
(b) The police station.
(c) The welfare office.
(d) The hospital.

9. In comparison to Antigua, how are the nearby islands viewed?
(a) As too rainy.
(b) As too brown.
(c) As too dry.
(d) As too green.

10. Where is Queen Victoria's death celebrated?
(a) In Antigua.
(b) In London.
(c) In America.
(d) At the school she attended in England.

11. What indicates that the building is actually a school?
(a) A sign.
(b) A teacher.
(c) Children.
(d) A flag.

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

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

14. What does the author say in Section 2 that the English teach the Antiguans?
(a) Reading.
(b) Language.
(c) Crime.
(d) Sports.

15. What is the Czechoslovakian refugee trained as?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A dentist.
(d) A doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the English think is stupid?

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

3. Why are the natives jealous of the tourists?

4. What is extremely dynamic in Antigua?

5. How does the author describe all tourists?

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