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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language do Antiguans speak?
(a) African.
(b) English.
(c) Latin.
(d) Antiguan.

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

3. What has changed since the narrator's youth?
(a) Slavery has been abolished.
(b) Antigua.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The Antiguan government.

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

5. Who condemns the tourists' lack of concern?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The tourists.
(c) The Prime Minister.
(d) The Antiguans.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What do the Barclay Brothers open to sustain their wealth?
(a) The Mill Reef Club.
(b) The library.
(c) Barclay Bank.
(d) A dentist's office.

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

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

14. What do the tourists ask to see which prevents them from being overcharged?
(a) The mansions.
(b) The fee sheet.
(c) The manager.
(d) The hotel.

15. Who does Kincaid say is a potential tourist?
(a) No one.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Every native.
(d) Antiguans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What either frightens or thrills the tourists?

2. In regard to the laws that the narrator recalls being passed, what do the English have difficulty determining?

3. Who do the English think is stupid?

4. What do the Antiguans celebrate as a holiday?

5. Who loves England so much that they leave and never return?

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