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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the English leave Antigua?
(a) Because they miss their home.
(b) Because they are lonely.
(c) Because they are murdered.
(d) Because they are poorer than the Antiguans.

2. What do the tourists admire?
(a) The beauty of Antigua.
(b) The narrator's honesty.
(c) The intelligence of the natives.
(d) The cleanliness of the ocean.

3. Who is the object of the narrator's reminiscences named after?
(a) No one.
(b) An English maritime criminal.
(c) Her father.
(d) The first Prime Minister of Antigua.

4. When is the resentment of a crime less effective and more degrading?
(a) Never.
(b) When the victim cries during the expression of their resentment.
(c) When it is expressed in the criminals' language.
(d) When it is non-verbal.

5. What is named after an English Princess?
(a) The school.
(b) The library.
(c) The airport.
(d) The hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the lush vegetation of the neighboring islands indicate?

2. How does the author describe all tourists?

3. What do the Antiguans celebrate as a holiday?

4. How do the tourists feel by the time they return to their homes?

5. Where is Queen Victoria's death celebrated?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Barclay Brothers earn and sustain their wealth?

2. How is Queen Victoria celebrated in Antigua and England?

3. How does the narrator feel about Europeans, as described in Section 1?

4. When the English leave Antigua, what do they condemn, and what do they praise?

5. How does the narrator view tourists, as described in Section 1?

6. What do the tourists think about the school in Section 1?

7. What does the headmistress of the girls' school often say, and how does the narrator feel about this?

8. What does the taxi driver tell the tourists about the first mansion in Section 1?

9. How do the English teach the Antiguans crime, according to the narrator in Section 2?

10. How do the tourists react to the hospital, and what is the narrator's opinion about this?

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