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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) 30.
(d) 10.
2. When do the African slaves cease to be noble and exalted?
(a) They are never noble and exalted.
(b) When they are brought to Antigua.
(c) After emancipation.
(d) They never cease to be noble and exalted.
3. Why were Africans brought to Antigua?
(a) They sought religious freedom.
(b) To build homes.
(c) To be slaves.
(d) To teach the English about agriculture.
4. When V. C. Bird reassumes his station, how long is the other Prime Minister imprisoned for?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 8 months.
(c) 8 years.
(d) 6 years.
5. During the second Prime Minister's term, what happened to tourism?
(a) It improved.
(b) It ceased.
(c) It irritated natives.
(d) It went bankrupt.
Short Answer Questions
1. When the English leave Antigua, what do the slaveholders become?
2. What does the narrator speak about to the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?
3. Who is in charge of the Treasury, Tourism and Public Works?
4. What does the author say is lacking to separate Antiguans from the past?
5. When Antigua becomes self-governing, what happens to the Queen's stand-in?
Short Essay Questions
1. When are Africans brought to Antigua, by whom, and why?
2. Describe the Redonda stamp scandal.
3. What does the narrator say about small events which occur in small places?
4. Describe the only two Prime Ministers that Antigua has had in the thirty years that it has been a self-governing nation.
5. When the narrator was a child, what did the head librarian suspect, and what does the narrator say about these suspicions?
6. What is the purpose of the paradoxical contradiction of the surrealism of Antigua and the ordinariness of the people who live there?
7. Where is the library now situated, and what is happening with the books, according to Section 3?
8. What does the narrator compare to Antigua in Section 4, and how does she use this analogy?
9. What happens to the acting Governor General when the Governor General goes to Europe in the months before Antigua's carnival?
10. When was Antigua discovered and by whom?
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