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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do people arrive in Antigua at the beginning of Section 1?
(a) By boat.
(b) By parachuting in.
(c) By V. C. Bird International Airport.
(d) By V. C. Bird Marina.

2. What do the tourists wonder if the car owners have?
(a) Legal records.
(b) A lot of money.
(c) Equally extravagant homes.
(d) Large families.

3. How did the Barclay Brothers earn their wealth?
(a) As slave-traders.
(b) By embezzling money from the Antiguan government.
(c) As owners of the Mill Reef Club.
(d) As bankers.

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

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

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

7. What does the author say in Section 2 that the English steal from the Antiguans?
(a) Children.
(b) Land.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Money.

8. Who does the narrator pity?
(a) The English.
(b) The tourists.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The Antiguans.

9. 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 streets and buildings are repaired.
(c) The natives are gathered for a parade.
(d) The hotel is lavishly decorated.

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

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

12. What does the author say in Section 2 that the English teach the Antiguans?
(a) Sports.
(b) Reading.
(c) Language.
(d) Crime.

13. Who does the narrator recall seeing disappear behind the walls of the Government House?
(a) The Queen.
(b) A putty-faced Princess.
(c) The Prime Minister.
(d) No one.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe all tourists?

2. What laws does the narrator recall being passed in her youth?

3. How do the tourists feel by the time they return to their homes?

4. Why are the natives jealous of the tourists?

5. How do the tourists feel around the natives?

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