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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 is the narrator unable to talk to the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport?
(a) He hates her because of her mother.
(b) He is dead.
(c) He is at a sporting event out of town.
(d) He is visiting his family in Europe.

2. What kind of character is the island of Antigua?
(a) Comical.
(b) Static.
(c) Lamentable.
(d) Dynamic.

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

4. When the English leave Antigua, what do Antiguans cease to be?
(a) Homesick and unhappy.
(b) Noble, exalted slaves.
(c) Ordinary people.
(d) A selfish, miserable disease.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the English?

2. Who outbids the Antiguan government at an auction for slave records?

3. Where does the narrator's friend travel?

4. When do the slaveholders cease to be selfish rubbish?

5. When the English leave Antigua, what do Antiguans become?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of the paradoxical contradiction of the surrealism of Antigua and the ordinariness of the people who live there?

2. What happens when the English leave Antigua at the end of Section 4?

3. Why do all Antiguan ministers possess green cards, and what happens to honest ministers?

4. What does the narrator's friend say about Switzerland, and how does the narrator feel about this?

5. When the narrator decides to speak to the lady whose family helped establish the Mill Reef Club, what does the lady say, and how does the narrator feel about this?

6. When was Antigua discovered and by whom?

7. How are the Antiguans taken advantage of due to their innocence and naivete?

8. How does the narrator describe Antigua at the beginning of Section 4?

9. Describe the Redonda stamp scandal.

10. Where is the library now situated, and what is happening with the books, according to Section 3?

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