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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 is held to raise funds to repair the library?
(a) An exhibition.
(b) A bake sale.
(c) A Teenage Pageant.
(d) An auction.
2. When was Antigua discovered?
(a) 1493.
(b) 1593.
(c) 1509.
(d) 1402.
3. Who are ordinary people, according to the author in Section 4?
(a) No one is ordinary.
(b) Antiguans.
(c) The Syrians.
(d) The foreigners who lives in Antigua.
4. Who is the Queen's stand-in in Antigua before the island becomes self-governing?
(a) The Premier.
(b) The narrator.
(c) A Minister of Government.
(d) The Prime Minister.
5. During the second Prime Minister's term, what happened to tourism?
(a) It ceased.
(b) It irritated natives.
(c) It improved.
(d) It went bankrupt.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the author say is lacking to separate Antiguans from the past?
2. What kind of characters are the Antiguans?
3. What is established to promote better wages, working conditions and life for Antiguans?
4. Who considers what being real people submerged in the unreality of Antigua must do to the people?
5. What does the author say in Section 4 is so beautiful that it is unreal?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator describe as surreal, besides the island?
2. What happens when the English leave Antigua at the end of Section 4?
3. Where is the library now situated, and what is happening with the books, according to Section 3?
4. How does Section 4 begin as a panegyric, and how does it change?
5. Describe the only two Prime Ministers that Antigua has had in the thirty years that it has been a self-governing nation.
6. Why does the narrator consider what the island's beauty must do to the natives?
7. What does the narrator say about small events which occur in small places?
8. When was Antigua discovered and by whom?
9. What role do the slave records play in Section 3?
10. How are slaves and slaveholders viewed by the narrator in Section 4?
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