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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 narrator describe the English?
(a) As rubbish and a selfish, miserable disease.
(b) As disheartened and homesick.
(c) As noble and exalted.
(d) As excited to experience new things.

2. Whose suspicions of the narrator as a child were justified?
(a) The head librarian's.
(b) The headmistress of the narrator's school.
(c) The Primer Minister's.
(d) The narrator's mother's.

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

4. How are the Antiguan utility companies set up?
(a) They are owned by Americans who visit Antigua on vacation.
(b) As competitive entities.
(c) As monopolies.
(d) There are no utility companies in Antigua.

5. What does the swindler from the Far East help build?
(a) West Indies Oil Refinery.
(b) The Redonda stamps.
(c) Condominiums for Americans.
(d) The Antiguan library.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in Section 4 is described as submerged in the unreality of Antigua?

2. When Antigua becomes self-governing, what happens to the Queen's stand-in?

3. When do the slaveholders cease to be selfish rubbish?

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

5. When the English leave Antigua, what do the slaveholders become?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the Redonda stamp scandal.

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. In regard to the Bird family, what are Antiguans' concerns, and how are these concerns lessened?

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