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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. How does the author describe Antigua as beautiful now?
(a) In exactly the same way as before.
(b) Ordinarily.
(c) It is not beautiful now.
(d) Wonderfully.

2. How does the narrator describe the pain of Antiguans?
(a) As nonexistent.
(b) As unreal.
(c) As sad.
(d) As irritating.

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

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

5. Why is Bird's less ruthless son not a threat to Antiguans?
(a) He is married to a kind woman who will not allow him to be cruel to Antiguans.
(b) He is too old.
(c) He is already dead.
(d) He is too opulent to be a true leader.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adds to the surrealism of the island, according to Section 4?

2. How does the narrator describe the English?

3. In Section 4, who is oppressed?

4. Who is the Queen's stand-in in Antigua before the island becomes self-governing?

5. Who is suspected of murder but never convicted?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the slaves and slaveholders compared in Section 4?

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

3. What is said about casinos is Section 3, and what will actually occur, according to the narrator?

4. When the narrator was a child, what did the head librarian suspect, and what does the narrator say about these suspicions?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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