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Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tries to overcharge the tourists?
(a) The pilot.
(b) The hotel manager.
(c) The taxi drivers.
(d) The narrator.

2. What laws does the narrator recall being passed in her youth?
(a) Laws prohibiting women from reading.
(b) Laws to prevent natives from entering public buildings.
(c) Laws to prevent abusive language.
(d) Laws allowing the government to embezzle money.

3. What do the English condemn?
(a) The Antiguans' barbarity.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Their supposed superiority.
(d) Their attempts at Enlightenment.

4. Who does not work for the Barclay Brothers for a long time?
(a) A black person.
(b) The narrator.
(c) A woman.
(d) A man.

5. Who owns much of Antigua?
(a) The narrator.
(b) A drug smuggler.
(c) The Middle Eastern family.
(d) Evita.

6. What does the narrator reminisce about near the beginning of Section 2?
(a) Attending elementary school.
(b) Her first marriage.
(c) The streets she grew up on.
(d) Her family life.

7. Who does Kincaid say is a potential tourist?
(a) The narrator.
(b) No one.
(c) Every native.
(d) Antiguans.

8. Why are the natives jealous of the tourists?
(a) Because the tourists do not have any concerns.
(b) Because the tourists are from a nicer place.
(c) The natives are not jealous of the tourists.
(d) Because they are unable to escape the place that they live.

9. What is admired about the island?
(a) Its beauty.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Its heat.
(d) Its people.

10. What does the sign on the front of the library claim?
(a) Repairs are pending.
(b) Open for business.
(c) No natives allowed.
(d) No women allowed.

11. What either frightens or thrills the tourists?
(a) The drivers' carelessness.
(b) The lack of rain.
(c) The waves on the beach.
(d) Landing in Antigua.

12. Who do the tourists wonder at?
(a) The English.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The natives.
(d) Themselves.

13. How do the Antiguans feel about the owners of the first mansion?
(a) They love them.
(b) They are close friends.
(c) They hate them.
(d) They are jealous of them.

14. What does the narrator hate about a specific group of people?
(a) Their friendship with her mother.
(b) Their innocence and naivete.
(c) Their concern for others.
(d) Their supposed superiority.

15. What do the English praise?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Their own efforts toward Enlightenment.
(c) Their supposed superiority.
(d) The Antiguans' barbarity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Since when has the library been closed?

3. Who do the English think is stupid?

4. What are the tourists normally reassured of?

5. How did the Barclay Brothers earn their wealth?

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