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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 did the Antiguans hope the second Prime Minister would bring to Antigua?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Luxury and relaxation.
(c) The Antiguans had no hopes for the second Prime Minister.
(d) Honesty and prosperity.

2. Whose beautiful poorness is unreal?
(a) The slaves'.
(b) The narrator's.
(c) The villages'.
(d) The English's.

3. What are used as havens for drug smuggling in Antigua?
(a) Hotels.
(b) Car dealerships.
(c) The Antiguans' homes.
(d) Mansions.

4. Who is the Queen's stand-in in Antigua before the island becomes self-governing?
(a) The Premier.
(b) The Prime Minister.
(c) A Minister of Government.
(d) The narrator.

5. Who does the narrator see as innocent and naïve?
(a) Antiguans.
(b) Ministers of government.
(c) The English.
(d) Tourists.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Antiguans worry that the Birds will be unwilling to relinquish?

3. Why are slaves brought to Antigua?

4. How does the narrator describe the English?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the Redonda stamp scandal.

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

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

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

7. When the narrator was a child, what did the head librarian suspect, and what does the narrator say about these suspicions?

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

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

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

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