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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator say has no language?
(a) English.
(b) Antiguans.
(c) Tourists.
(d) Americans.

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

3. What kind of cars are predominant in Antigua?
(a) Expensive Japanese cars.
(b) Family-friendly station wagons.
(c) Flashy convertibles.
(d) Police cars.

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

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

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

7. Who loves England so much that they leave and never return?
(a) The English.
(b) No one.
(c) Americans.
(d) Antiguans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Who constantly rebukes children for behaving like monkeys?
(a) The headmistress of the girls' school.
(b) The Czechoslovakian refugee.
(c) The founders of the Mill Reef Club.
(d) The Barclay Brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the lush vegetation of the neighboring islands indicate?

2. What do the tourists swim with?

3. Who does not realize the cruelty of their actions concerning slavery?

4. How do the North Americans feel about native Antiguans?

5. What is named after an English Princess?

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