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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. What does the narrator praise in Section 4?
(a) Her own intelligence.
(b) The justice of the way that the English treat the Antiguans.
(c) The poverty of the Antiguans.
(d) The beauty and wonders of Antigua.

2. Who is in charge of the Treasury, Tourism and Public Works?
(a) Bird's two sons.
(b) It changes annually.
(c) V. C. Bird.
(d) The narrator.

3. What kind of characters are the Antiguans?
(a) Lamentable.
(b) Static.
(c) Dynamic.
(d) Comical.

4. How does the narrator describe the English?
(a) As disheartened and homesick.
(b) As rubbish and a selfish, miserable disease.
(c) As noble and exalted.
(d) As excited to experience new things.

5. What is the tone of most of "A Small Place?"
(a) Reverent.
(b) Sarcastic.
(c) Comical.
(d) Mournful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who may relent and assist in building a new library?

2. What does the narrator's mother argue about with the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport?

3. Who owns much land in Antigua?

4. What does the author say in Section 4 is so beautiful that it is unreal?

5. Who outbids the Antiguan government at an auction for slave records?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator consider what the island's beauty must do to the natives?

2. Why do all Antiguan ministers possess green cards, and what happens to honest ministers?

3. How are the slaves and slaveholders compared in Section 4?

4. When the narrator decides to speak to the lady whose family helped establish the Mill Reef Club, what does the lady say, and how does the narrator feel about this?

5. What does the narrator describe as surreal, besides the island?

6. How does Section 4 begin as a panegyric, and how does it change?

7. In Section 4, which characters are static, and which characters are dynamic?

8. What happens to the acting Governor General when the Governor General goes to Europe in the months before Antigua's carnival?

9. How are slaves and slaveholders viewed by the narrator in Section 4?

10. What does the narrator compare to Antigua in Section 4, and how does she use this analogy?

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