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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator condemn about the tourists in Section 1?
(a) Their ugliness.
(b) Their shallowness.
(c) Their vapidity.
(d) Their stupidity.

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

4. Who arrives in Antigua at the beginning of Section 1?
(a) Tourists.
(b) The headmistress of the girls' school.
(c) The Swedish.
(d) The narrator.

5. What does the narrator pity?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The poverty of Antiguans.
(c) The ruined empire of the English.
(d) The demolished library.

6. What does the narrator say that Antiguans do not seem to realize?
(a) That Queen Victoria is dead.
(b) That many foreigners are racist.
(c) That Queen Victoria was English.
(d) That many foreigners are loyal to Antigua.

7. What does the narrator reminisce about near the beginning of Section 2?
(a) Her first marriage.
(b) Attending elementary school.
(c) The streets she grew up on.
(d) Her family life.

8. What makes the Antiguans feel superior to foreigners?
(a) Their vast intelligence.
(b) Their better breeding.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Their more attractive looks.

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

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

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

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

13. Who does the narrator hate?
(a) Americans.
(b) Europeans.
(c) Asians.
(d) Antiguans.

14. Who serves as a hyperbolic paradox of the Antiguans?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The tourists.
(c) The foreigners.
(d) The English.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of cars are predominant in Antigua?

5. What does the author say in Section 2 that the English teach the Antiguans?

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