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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is now situated above a dry-goods store?
(a) The library.
(b) The school.
(c) The narrator's life.
(d) The hospital.
2. What does the narrator criticize about Antigua in Section 4?
(a) The Antiguans' stupidity.
(b) The government.
(c) The efforts at Enlightenment made by the English.
(d) The grass and cows.
3. What is Bird's ruthless son dying from?
(a) A brain tumor.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Starvation.
(d) A blood disease.
4. 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 monopolies.
(d) As competitive entities.
5. How does the narrator describe the pain of Antiguans?
(a) As sad.
(b) As unreal.
(c) As nonexistent.
(d) As irritating.
6. What charge is the second Prime Minister imprisoned for?
(a) Murdering government officials.
(b) Lying to the Antiguan people.
(c) Cheating on his spouse.
(d) Using his office for personal profit.
7. Why is Bird's less ruthless son not a threat to Antiguans?
(a) He is already dead.
(b) He is married to a kind woman who will not allow him to be cruel to Antiguans.
(c) He is too opulent to be a true leader.
(d) He is too old.
8. When the English leave Antigua, what do the slaveholders become?
(a) Noble, exalted slaves.
(b) A selfish, miserable disease.
(c) Homesick and unhappy.
(d) Ordinary people.
9. What does the author say in Section 4 is so beautiful that it is unreal?
(a) Religion.
(b) Antigua.
(c) The natives.
(d) The neighboring islands.
10. What does the narrator speak about to the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?
(a) Electing a new Prime Minister.
(b) Purchasing Antigua's slave records.
(c) Restoring the library.
(d) Her family's history.
11. What are used as havens for drug smuggling in Antigua?
(a) Mansions.
(b) Hotels.
(c) The Antiguans' homes.
(d) Car dealerships.
12. Where does the narrator's friend travel?
(a) America.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) Antigua.
(d) England.
13. What did the Antiguans hope the second Prime Minister would bring to Antigua?
(a) The Antiguans had no hopes for the second Prime Minister.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Honesty and prosperity.
(d) Luxury and relaxation.
14. How does the author describe how beautiful Antigua was before?
(a) Wonderfully.
(b) Ordinarily.
(c) Surreally.
(d) It was not beautiful before.
15. What is established to promote better wages, working conditions and life for Antiguans?
(a) Barclay Bank.
(b) Antiguan Trades and Labor Union.
(c) West Indies Oil Refinery.
(d) Mill Reef Club.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why is the narrator unable to talk to the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport?
2. When were Africans brought to Antigua?
3. Whose suspicions of the narrator as a child were justified?
4. When Antigua becomes self-governing, what happens to the Queen's stand-in?
5. Who serves as Prime Minister for twenty-five of Antigua's thirty years as a self-governing nation?
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