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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the English praise?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Their supposed superiority.
(c) The Antiguans' barbarity.
(d) Their own efforts toward Enlightenment.

2. Who is detained by customs searches?
(a) The English.
(b) Native Antiguans.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The tourists.

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

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

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

6. How do the tourists feel by the time they return to their homes?
(a) Sad.
(b) Happy.
(c) Well-rested.
(d) Exhausted.

7. How was the second mansion paid for?
(a) Through a loan.
(b) No one knows.
(c) In cash.
(d) It is not paid for.

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

9. What does the Czechoslovakian refugee require his wife to do?
(a) Interview his clients.
(b) Cook him dinner every night.
(c) Inspect his patients before he treats them.
(d) Work as a maid.

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

11. What does the sign on the front of the library claim?
(a) Repairs are pending.
(b) Open for business.
(c) No natives allowed.
(d) No women allowed.

12. Who is the object of the narrator's reminiscences named after?
(a) The first Prime Minister of Antigua.
(b) No one.
(c) An English maritime criminal.
(d) Her father.

13. What do the tourists admire?
(a) The intelligence of the natives.
(b) The cleanliness of the ocean.
(c) The beauty of Antigua.
(d) The narrator's honesty.

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

15. According to the author, where do the tourists behave as normal people?
(a) At home.
(b) In Antigua.
(c) Everywhere.
(d) There is no such thing as normal people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the tourists wonder if the car owners have?

2. What is harder for Antiguans to get than car loans?

3. How do the natives view the comments about their children behaving like monkeys?

4. Who does the narrator hate?

5. The tourists try not to dwell on the condition of what public facility?

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