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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How long have the owners of the first mansion lived in Antigua?
(a) Five weeks.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Six months.

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

6. In comparison to Antigua, how are the nearby islands viewed?
(a) As too green.
(b) As too rainy.
(c) As too brown.
(d) As too dry.

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

8. What are Antiguans apathetic toward?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Tourism.
(d) The English.

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

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

11. Who do the English think is stupid?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Tourists.
(c) Antiguans.
(d) Americans.

12. What are the Antiguans still being extorted for?
(a) They are not being extorted.
(b) Pecuniary gains.
(c) For amusement.
(d) Moral reasons.

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

14. How do the Antiguans feel about the owners of the first mansion?
(a) They are jealous of them.
(b) They hate them.
(c) They love them.
(d) They are close friends.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who do the tourists see as superior to the natives and their ancestors?

4. What is the Czechoslovakian refugee trained as?

5. What is named after an English Princess?

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