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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the pain of Antiguans?
(a) As irritating.
(b) As nonexistent.
(c) As unreal.
(d) As sad.

2. What is now situated above a dry-goods store?
(a) The school.
(b) The library.
(c) The narrator's life.
(d) The hospital.

3. What does the author say is lacking to separate Antiguans from the past?
(a) Emancipation.
(b) Time.
(c) Laws.
(d) A historical moment.

4. What is the old library now used as?
(a) A library.
(b) The headquarters of a carnival troupe.
(c) A school.
(d) Storage.

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

6. What do Antiguans call Bird's ruthless son?
(a) Papa Poverty.
(b) Papa Doc.
(c) Doctor Jekyl.
(d) Doctor Dolittle.

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

8. Who outbids the Antiguan government at an auction for slave records?
(a) The Lebanese.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The swindler from the Far East.
(d) The Syrians.

9. Whose beautiful poorness is unreal?
(a) The slaves'.
(b) The narrator's.
(c) The English's.
(d) The villages'.

10. How many Prime Ministers has Antigua had in its thirty years as a self-governing nation?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 30.
(d) 2.

11. How does the author describe how beautiful Antigua was before?
(a) It was not beautiful before.
(b) Ordinarily.
(c) Surreally.
(d) Wonderfully.

12. Whose voice does the narrator utilize?
(a) Jamaica Kincaid's.
(b) It varies throughout the book.
(c) Her mother's.
(d) V. C. Bird's.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to the government official who investigates the murders of a calypso singer's sister and a European woman?

3. When V. C. Bird reassumes his station, how long is the other Prime Minister imprisoned for?

4. When were Africans brought to Antigua?

5. According to the narrator in Section 3, what has become a tourist attraction?

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