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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 do the tourists wonder at?

2. What do the English condemn?

3. As a child, how did the narrator feel about the Government House?

4. What do the natives do that the tourists do not suspect?

5. Who owns the third mansion described in Section 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. According to the narrator at the end of Section 1, what is the association between all tourists and all natives?

4. What do the tourists think about the natives?

5. What do tourists consider, and what do they not consider?

6. How did the narrator feel about the Governor House as a child, and what did she see there?

7. How do the Barclay Brothers earn and sustain their wealth?

8. In Section 2, what laws does the narrator recall, and what complicated these laws?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the narrator change throughout the book? Detail the changes she makes and the reasons behind those changes.

Essay Topic 2

How are the different symbols used throughout the book to represent abstract concepts? Detail and explain how the symbols are used to describe certain abstract concepts and which concepts they describe.

Essay Topic 3

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

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