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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 many Prime Ministers has Antigua had in its thirty years as a self-governing nation?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 30.

2. At the end of Section 4, who still lives in a surreal place?
(a) Antiguans.
(b) The Prime Minister.
(c) The English.
(d) The narrator.

3. How does the author describe Antigua as beautiful now?
(a) It is not beautiful now.
(b) Ordinarily.
(c) In exactly the same way as before.
(d) Wonderfully.

4. During the second Prime Minister's term, what happened to the sugar industry?
(a) It went bankrupt.
(b) It never existed.
(c) It ceased to exist.
(d) It profited.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Antiguans call Bird's ruthless son?

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

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

4. Who outbids the Antiguan government at an auction for slave records?

5. What does the swindler from the Far East help build?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the purpose of the paradoxical contradiction of the surrealism of Antigua and the ordinariness of the people who live there?

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

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

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

7. Describe the Redonda stamp scandal.

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

9. When are Africans brought to Antigua, by whom, and why?

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

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