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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 constantly rebukes children for behaving like monkeys?

2. How do the tourists feel around the natives?

3. What do the tourists wonder if the car owners have?

4. How does the author describe all tourists?

5. What would become very important if there was a car accident?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do tourists think about when they notice the expensive Japanese cars?

2. How is Queen Victoria celebrated in Antigua and England?

3. How do the English teach the Antiguans crime, according to the narrator in Section 2?

4. What do the tourists think about the natives?

5. What does the narrator say about the library in Section 2?

6. How does the Czechoslovakian refugee earn his living, and how does he feel about native Antiguans?

7. How does the narrator feel about the English at the beginning of Section 2?

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

9. How does the narrator view tourists, as described in Section 1?

10. How do native Antiguans feel about the foreigners who inhabit their island, as described in Section 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which groups of people are present in the book as the protagonist and the antagonist? Why?

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 monopoly of organizations (utilities, car dealerships, etc.) negatively affect Antiguans?

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