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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. Who is not permitted time on the radio to defend themselves?
(a) The Antiguan government.
(b) The English.
(c) Opposition parties.
(d) The narrator and her mother.

2. What is established to promote better wages, working conditions and life for Antiguans?
(a) Mill Reef Club.
(b) Antiguan Trades and Labor Union.
(c) West Indies Oil Refinery.
(d) Barclay Bank.

3. 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.

4. Who leaves Antigua?
(a) Slaveholders.
(b) Syrians.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Africans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are ordinary people, according to the author in Section 4?

2. How does the narrator describe the English?

3. Who discovered Antigua?

4. What did the Antiguans hope the second Prime Minister would bring to Antigua?

5. What does the author say in Section 4 is so beautiful that it is unreal?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Section 4, what role does emancipation play?

2. What does the narrator compare to Antigua in Section 4, and how does she use this analogy?

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

4. Describe the Redonda stamp scandal.

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

7. In Section 4, which characters are static, and which characters are dynamic?

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

9. How does the Antigua of the present compare to the Antigua of the past?

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

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