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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the Antiguan utility companies set up?
(a) As competitive entities.
(b) As monopolies.
(c) They are owned by Americans who visit Antigua on vacation.
(d) There are no utility companies in Antigua.

2. What charge is the second Prime Minister imprisoned for?
(a) Murdering government officials.
(b) Using his office for personal profit.
(c) Lying to the Antiguan people.
(d) Cheating on his spouse.

3. Who considers what being real people submerged in the unreality of Antigua must do to the people?
(a) The headmistress of the girls' school.
(b) The Prime Minister.
(c) The Antiguans.
(d) The narrator.

4. How much money do the French send for development, though it mysteriously disappears?
(a) $500.
(b) $11,000,000,000.
(c) $11,000,000.
(d) $5,000.

5. What does the narrator criticize about Antigua in Section 4?
(a) The grass and cows.
(b) The efforts at Enlightenment made by the English.
(c) The government.
(d) The Antiguans' stupidity.

6. How does the author describe Antigua as beautiful now?
(a) In exactly the same way as before.
(b) Ordinarily.
(c) It is not beautiful now.
(d) Wonderfully.

7. What happens to the government official who investigates the murders of a calypso singer's sister and a European woman?
(a) He is electrocuted by his refrigerator.
(b) He disappears.
(c) He moves to Europe.
(d) He is bribed to discontinue his investigation.

8. At the end of Section 4, who still lives in a surreal place?
(a) The Prime Minister.
(b) The English.
(c) Antiguans.
(d) The narrator.

9. Who in Section 4 is described as submerged in the unreality of Antigua?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Real people.
(c) The English.
(d) No one.

10. Who serves as Prime Minister for twenty-five of Antigua's thirty years as a self-governing nation?
(a) Vere Cornwall Bird.
(b) The librarian.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Victor Cornelius Birdman.

11. According to the narrator in Section 3, what has become a tourist attraction?
(a) Antigua's historical monuments.
(b) Antiguans' poverty.
(c) Antiguans' degradation.
(d) Antigua's beauty.

12. What falls with an unreal force that tears up the earth?
(a) Poverty.
(b) The rain.
(c) Slavery.
(d) The waves.

13. What are used as havens for drug smuggling in Antigua?
(a) Car dealerships.
(b) Mansions.
(c) The Antiguans' homes.
(d) Hotels.

14. Who has green cards that allow them to escape to the United States?
(a) The narrator and her family.
(b) All Antiguans.
(c) All Antiguan ministers of government.
(d) No one.

15. How does the narrator describe the Africans?
(a) As noble and exalted.
(b) As disheartened and homesick.
(c) As excited to experience new things.
(d) As a selfish and miserable disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is established to promote better wages, working conditions and life for Antiguans?

2. In Section 4, who is the oppressor?

3. Who owns much land in Antigua?

4. What does the narrator speak about to the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?

5. During the second Prime Minister's term, what happened to tourism?

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