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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 author say is lacking to separate Antiguans from the past?
(a) Emancipation.
(b) Time.
(c) Laws.
(d) A historical moment.

2. How does the author describe how beautiful Antigua was before?
(a) It was not beautiful before.
(b) Ordinarily.
(c) Wonderfully.
(d) Surreally.

3. During the second Prime Minister's term, what happened to tourism?
(a) It ceased.
(b) It improved.
(c) It went bankrupt.
(d) It irritated natives.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator describe the Africans?

4. Why is the narrator offended by the reference to "her girls," as stated by the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens when the English leave Antigua at the end of Section 4?

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

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

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

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

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

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