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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is in charge of the Treasury, Tourism and Public Works?
(a) V. C. Bird.
(b) It changes annually.
(c) Bird's two sons.
(d) The narrator.

2. Where does the narrator's friend travel?
(a) America.
(b) Antigua.
(c) England.
(d) Switzerland.

3. What does the narrator's mother argue about with the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport?
(a) The Redonda stamps.
(b) Their favorite football team.
(c) Building the West Indies Oil Refinery.
(d) Rebuilding the library.

4. During the second Prime Minister's term, what happened to tourism?
(a) It improved.
(b) It irritated natives.
(c) It went bankrupt.
(d) It ceased.

5. When Antigua becomes self-governing, what happens to the Queen's stand-in?
(a) He becomes Premier.
(b) He becomes President.
(c) He is assassinated.
(d) He becomes Prime Minister.

6. What does the swindler from the Far East help build?
(a) West Indies Oil Refinery.
(b) Condominiums for Americans.
(c) The Redonda stamps.
(d) The Antiguan library.

7. Who returns to their lands at the end of Section 4?
(a) Slaves.
(b) No one.
(c) Slaveholders.
(d) The narrator.

8. Who is freed in a way when the English leave Antigua?
(a) Slaves.
(b) The Syrians.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The English.

9. Why is the narrator unable to talk to the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport?
(a) He hates her because of her mother.
(b) He is visiting his family in Europe.
(c) He is at a sporting event out of town.
(d) He is dead.

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

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

12. Who discovered Antigua?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) African refugees.
(c) Ponce de Leon.
(d) Christopher Columbus.

13. When the English leave Antigua, what do Antiguans become?
(a) A selfish, miserable disease.
(b) Homesick and unhappy.
(c) Ordinary people.
(d) Noble, exalted slaves.

14. Who owns much land in Antigua?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The Prime Minister.
(c) Evita.
(d) Syrians and Lebanese.

15. What does the narrator praise in Section 4?
(a) The beauty and wonders of Antigua.
(b) The justice of the way that the English treat the Antiguans.
(c) The poverty of the Antiguans.
(d) Her own intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose voice does the narrator utilize?

2. Who outbids the Antiguan government at an auction for slave records?

3. Who serves as Prime Minister for twenty-five of Antigua's thirty years as a self-governing nation?

4. What paradoxical contradiction serves to provide another fault of Antigua?

5. What is more exaggerated in a small place like Antigua?

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