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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 does the narrator pity?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The demolished library.
(c) The poverty of Antiguans.
(d) The ruined empire of the English.

2. What is the only offense the Czechoslovakian refugee accepts from his patients?
(a) Their sarcasm.
(b) Their ignorance.
(c) The color of the skin.
(d) Their dirtiness.

3. How did the Barclay Brothers earn their wealth?
(a) By embezzling money from the Antiguan government.
(b) As slave-traders.
(c) As owners of the Mill Reef Club.
(d) As bankers.

4. What indicates that the building is actually a school?
(a) A flag.
(b) A teacher.
(c) Children.
(d) A sign.

5. Who do the tourists wonder at?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The English.
(c) Themselves.
(d) The natives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is named after an English Princess?

2. What do the tourists not consider when swimming in the sea?

3. Who owns the second mansion described in Section 1?

4. What is admired about the island?

5. What is extremely dynamic in Antigua?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Mill Reef Club.

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

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

4. What do the tourists not consider while swimming in the ocean?

5. How does the Czechoslovakian refugee earn his living, and how does he feel about native Antiguans?

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

7. How does the narrator feel about the English at the beginning of Section 2?

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

9. How does the narrator say Antiguans feel about capitalism, and why?

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

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