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

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

3. Who is suspected of murder but never convicted?
(a) Syrians and Lebanese.
(b) V. C. Bird.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Evita.

4. According to the narrator in Section 3, what has become a tourist attraction?
(a) Antiguans' poverty.
(b) Antigua's historical monuments.
(c) Antiguans' degradation.
(d) Antigua's beauty.

5. 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 her girls are illiterate.
(b) Because the lady states that her girls should get married young.
(c) Because the lady discourages her girls from reading.
(d) Because "her girls" are grown Antiguan women.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Prime Ministers has Antigua had in its thirty years as a self-governing nation?

2. Who does the narrator see as innocent and naïve?

3. How does the author describe Antigua as beautiful now?

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

5. What does the narrator criticize about Antigua in Section 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does the narrator compare to Antigua in Section 4, and how does she use this analogy?

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

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

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

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

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