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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. What does the narrator's mother argue about with the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport?
(a) Their favorite football team.
(b) The Redonda stamps.
(c) Building the West Indies Oil Refinery.
(d) Rebuilding the library.

2. What adds to the surrealism of the island, according to Section 4?
(a) The English.
(b) The natives' beliefs.
(c) The sea, sky and everything.
(d) The natives.

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

4. What is now situated above a dry-goods store?
(a) The narrator's life.
(b) The hospital.
(c) The school.
(d) The library.

5. Who has green cards that allow them to escape to the United States?
(a) All Antiguans.
(b) All Antiguan ministers of government.
(c) The narrator and her family.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe how beautiful Antigua was before?

2. Who considers what being real people submerged in the unreality of Antigua must do to the people?

3. What charge is the second Prime Minister imprisoned for?

4. During the second Prime Minister's term, what happened to the sugar industry?

5. How does the narrator describe the Africans?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are the Antiguans taken advantage of due to their innocence and naivete?

3. 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?

4. What does the narrator describe as surreal, besides the island?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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