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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 were Africans brought to Antigua?
(a) They sought religious freedom.
(b) To be slaves.
(c) To teach the English about agriculture.
(d) To build homes.

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

3. What does the narrator speak about to the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?
(a) Restoring the library.
(b) Her family's history.
(c) Electing a new Prime Minister.
(d) Purchasing Antigua's slave records.

4. Who brought Africans to Antigua?
(a) Africans came to Antigua on their own.
(b) The English.
(c) The Swiss.
(d) Americans.

5. Who discovered Antigua?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) Christopher Columbus.
(c) African refugees.
(d) Ponce de Leon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator criticize about Antigua in Section 4?

2. Why does the narrator think Antigua is in worse condition as a self-ruled nation?

3. What is Bird's ruthless son dying from?

4. During the second Prime Minister's term, what happened to the sugar industry?

5. Who is suspected of murder but never convicted?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say about small events which occur in small places?

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

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

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

5. What role do the slave records play in Section 3?

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

7. How are slaves and slaveholders viewed by the narrator in Section 4?

8. When are Africans brought to Antigua, by whom, and why?

9. How does Section 4 begin as a panegyric, and how does it change?

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

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