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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 is the narrator offended by the reference to "her girls," as stated by the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?
(a) Because the lady states that her girls should get married young.
(b) Because the lady discourages her girls from reading.
(c) Because "her girls" are grown Antiguan women.
(d) Because her girls are illiterate.

2. When the English leave Antigua, what do the slaveholders become?
(a) Ordinary people.
(b) Homesick and unhappy.
(c) Noble, exalted slaves.
(d) A selfish, miserable disease.

3. Why does the narrator think Antigua is in worse condition as a self-ruled nation?
(a) Because of the ignorance of the natives.
(b) Antigua is not a self-ruled nation.
(c) She does not think this.
(d) Because of the corrupt government in power.

4. What does Section 4 begin as?
(a) A political pamphlet published to overthrow the Antiguan government.
(b) A panegyric to the narrator's homeland.
(c) A story about the narrator's past.
(d) An outcry at the injustices of the Antiguan people.

5. What does the narrator praise in Section 4?
(a) The beauty and wonders of Antigua.
(b) The justice of the way that the English treat the Antiguans.
(c) Her own intelligence.
(d) The poverty of the Antiguans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a government official condone during a radio appearance?

2. How does the narrator describe the Africans?

3. How does the narrator describe the pain of Antiguans?

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

5. Whose suspicions of the narrator as a child were justified?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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