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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. What do the tourists swim with?
(a) Sharks that come near shore.
(b) Lifeguards watching over them.
(c) The contents of their flushed toilets.
(d) The leftovers from their breakfast.

2. What do the English praise?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Their supposed superiority.
(c) Their own efforts toward Enlightenment.
(d) The Antiguans' barbarity.

3. In Section 1, what do the tourists pass three of?
(a) Mansions.
(b) Beaches.
(c) Taxis.
(d) Hotels.

4. What does Section 2 compare and contrast?
(a) The tourists and the Antiguans.
(b) Antigua of the past and present.
(c) The English and the narrator.
(d) Antigua and England.

5. Since when has the library been closed?
(a) The Earthquake of 1974.
(b) The Volcano Eruption of 1970.
(c) The Hurricane of 1977.
(d) The Tsunami of 1980.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Antiguans feel about the owners of the first mansion?

2. What are the Antiguans still being extorted for?

3. Who arrives in Antigua at the beginning of Section 1?

4. What are the tourists normally reassured of?

5. What is done so that the English Princess will have a favorable impression of Antigua?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does language play in Section 2?

2. What do tourists consider, and what do they not consider?

3. What do the tourists think about the natives?

4. What in Antigua is named after an English Princess, what happens before she visits the island, and why?

5. What does the taxi driver tell the tourists about the second mansion in Section 1?

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

7. How do the natives feel about the tourists?

8. How do tourists arrive in Antigua, and what do they do upon their arrival?

9. In Section 2, what laws does the narrator recall, and what complicated these laws?

10. How does modern Antigua compare to the Antigua of the narrator's youth?

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