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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is extremely dynamic in Antigua?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The English.
(c) The culture and lifestyles.
(d) The tourists.

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

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

8. What is harder for Antiguans to get than car loans?
(a) Student loans.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Fixed utility poles.
(d) Home loans.

9. How do the tourists feel about the three similar objects that they pass?
(a) Happy.
(b) Curious.
(c) Sad.
(d) Angry.

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

11. What are the tourists normally reassured of?
(a) Their attractiveness.
(b) Their intelligence.
(c) Their friendliness.
(d) Their ugliness.

12. What do the natives do that the tourists do not suspect?
(a) Stalk them.
(b) Murder them.
(c) Mock them.
(d) Steal from them.

13. How do the Antiguans feel about the bad manners of foreigners?
(a) Sad.
(b) Surprised.
(c) Amused.
(d) Angry.

14. Who tries to overcharge the tourists?
(a) The pilot.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The hotel manager.
(d) The taxi drivers.

15. When is the resentment of a crime less effective and more degrading?
(a) When the victim cries during the expression of their resentment.
(b) When it is non-verbal.
(c) When it is expressed in the criminals' language.
(d) Never.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Kincaid say is a potential tourist?

2. What do the English condemn?

3. Who constantly rebukes children for behaving like monkeys?

4. According to the author, where do the tourists behave as normal people?

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

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