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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 lush vegetation of the neighboring islands indicate?
(a) The likelihood of rain.
(b) The health of the island.
(c) The lack of rain.
(d) The lack of health on the island.

2. What do the Antiguans celebrate as a holiday?
(a) Queen Victoria's birthday.
(b) The day that Antigua became a country.
(c) Their emancipation.
(d) The founding of the Mill Reef Club.

3. Who are presented as the protagonists of Section 2?
(a) Antiguans.
(b) The English.
(c) The narrator and her family.
(d) The tourists.

4. Who condemns the tourists' lack of concern?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The tourists.
(c) The Antiguans.
(d) The Prime Minister.

5. How do the Antiguans feel about the bad manners of foreigners?
(a) Surprised.
(b) Amused.
(c) Angry.
(d) Sad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is named after an English Princess?

2. What do North Americans found in Antigua?

3. What does the narrator pity?

4. What does Antigua's drier climate result from?

5. Who do the tourists wonder at?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the taxi driver tell the tourists about the third mansion in Section 1?

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

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

5. What does the narrator say about the library in Section 2?

6. What do the tourists think about the natives?

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

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

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

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

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