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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What either frightens or thrills the tourists?
(a) The drivers' carelessness.
(b) Landing in Antigua.
(c) The lack of rain.
(d) The waves on the beach.

2. What does Antigua's drier climate result from?
(a) Heat.
(b) Drought.
(c) Antigua does not have a drier climate.
(d) Greenhouse gases.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is named after an English Princess?
(a) The airport.
(b) The library.
(c) The school.
(d) The hospital.

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

11. 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 natives are gathered for a parade.
(d) The streets and buildings are repaired.

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

13. In Section 1, what do the tourists pass three of?
(a) Hotels.
(b) Beaches.
(c) Mansions.
(d) Taxis.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator reminisce about near the beginning of Section 2?

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

4. What does the narrator pity?

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

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