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

2. What does the author say is lacking to separate Antiguans from the past?
(a) Time.
(b) Laws.
(c) Emancipation.
(d) A historical moment.

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

4. Whose beautiful poorness is unreal?
(a) The villages'.
(b) The English's.
(c) The narrator's.
(d) The slaves'.

5. According to the narrator in Section 3, what has become a tourist attraction?
(a) Antigua's historical monuments.
(b) Antiguans' poverty.
(c) Antigua's beauty.
(d) Antiguans' degradation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owns much land in Antigua?

2. Who is in charge of the Treasury, Tourism and Public Works?

3. Why are slaves brought to Antigua?

4. Who does the narrator see as innocent and naïve?

5. Why is Bird's less ruthless son not a threat to Antiguans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the acting Governor General when the Governor General goes to Europe in the months before Antigua's carnival?

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

3. What do the Syrians and Lebanese do in Antigua?

4. Describe the Redonda stamp scandal.

5. Describe the only two Prime Ministers that Antigua has had in the thirty years that it has been a self-governing nation.

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

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

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

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

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

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