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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why do the English leave Antigua?
(a) Because they are murdered.
(b) Because they miss their home.
(c) Because they are poorer than the Antiguans.
(d) Because they are lonely.

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

6. How do the tourists feel around the natives?
(a) Uneasy.
(b) Friendly.
(c) Angry.
(d) Comfortable.

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

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

9. What do the tourists wonder if the car owners have?
(a) Legal records.
(b) Equally extravagant homes.
(c) A lot of money.
(d) Large families.

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

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

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

13. How do the natives view the comments about their children behaving like monkeys?
(a) They think these comments are funny.
(b) They never consider that these comments are racist.
(c) They do not know about these comments.
(d) They cannot tolerate such comments.

14. What would become very important if there was a car accident?
(a) The school.
(b) The library.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The hotel.

15. Whose girlfriend is the owner of the third mansion?
(a) The swindler from the Far East.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The Prime Minister.
(d) Someone high up in the government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since when has the library been closed?

2. Where do the tourists finally arrive in Section 1?

3. Who owns the first mansion described in Section 1?

4. What do the tourists not consider when swimming in the sea?

5. What language do Antiguans speak?

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