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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who serves as a hyperbolic paradox of the Antiguans?

2. What is named after an English Princess?

3. What either frightens or thrills the tourists?

4. What is extremely dynamic in Antigua?

5. What do North Americans found in Antigua?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the tourists react to the hospital, and what is the narrator's opinion about this?

2. What do the tourists not consider while swimming in the ocean?

3. How do tourists arrive in Antigua, and what do they do upon their arrival?

4. What do the tourists think about the natives?

5. Describe the Mill Reef Club.

6. What role does language play in Section 2?

7. What does the headmistress of the girls' school often say, and how does the narrator feel about this?

8. When the English leave Antigua, what do they condemn, and what do they praise?

9. What does the taxi driver tell the tourists about the third mansion in Section 1?

10. What in Antigua is named after an English Princess, what happens before she visits the island, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the corruption of the Antiguan government impede development in Antigua?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the main themes in this book and detail its recurrences throughout the book. What does it add to the book? How does it affect the different people described in the book?

Essay Topic 3

How does the narrator feel about tourists, the English and foreigners living in Antigua? Why does she feel this way?

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