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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 how beautiful Antigua was before?
(a) It was not beautiful before.
(b) Wonderfully.
(c) Surreally.
(d) Ordinarily.

2. Antigua's beauty is the same now as when Antiguans were what?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Homeless.
(d) Slaveholders.

3. How much money do the French send for development, though it mysteriously disappears?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $500.
(c) $11,000,000.
(d) $11,000,000,000.

4. When V. C. Bird reassumes his station, how long is the other Prime Minister imprisoned for?
(a) 8 months.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 6 years.

5. Whose voice does the narrator utilize?
(a) Jamaica Kincaid's.
(b) V. C. Bird's.
(c) It varies throughout the book.
(d) Her mother's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Antiguans worry that the Birds will be unwilling to relinquish?

2. What is held to raise funds to repair the library?

3. In Section 4, who is the oppressor?

4. Who has green cards that allow them to escape to the United States?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When was Antigua discovered and by whom?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. Why does the narrator consider what the island's beauty must do to the natives?

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

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