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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who does not work for the Barclay Brothers for a long time?
(a) A man.
(b) The narrator.
(c) A woman.
(d) A black person.

3. How are the tourists transported to their resorts?
(a) By taxi cab.
(b) By walking.
(c) By bus.
(d) By airplane.

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

5. How does the author describe all tourists?
(a) As stupid.
(b) As ugly.
(c) As friendly.
(d) As attractive.

6. Who owns much of Antigua?
(a) A drug smuggler.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Evita.
(d) The Middle Eastern family.

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

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

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

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

11. Why are the natives jealous of the tourists?
(a) Because the tourists do not have any concerns.
(b) Because the tourists are from a nicer place.
(c) The natives are not jealous of the tourists.
(d) Because they are unable to escape the place that they live.

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

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

14. Since when has the library been closed?
(a) The Volcano Eruption of 1970.
(b) The Hurricane of 1977.
(c) The Tsunami of 1980.
(d) The Earthquake of 1974.

15. What is admired about the island?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Its beauty.
(c) Its heat.
(d) Its people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say in Section 2 that the English steal from the Antiguans?

2. What makes the Antiguans feel superior to foreigners?

3. When is the resentment of a crime less effective and more degrading?

4. What does the narrator pity?

5. What do the tourists ask to see which prevents them from being overcharged?

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