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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. When Antigua becomes self-governing, what happens to the Queen's stand-in?
2. Who in Section 4 is described as submerged in the unreality of Antigua?
3. What is more exaggerated in a small place like Antigua?
4. Who leaves Antigua?
5. How does the author describe Antigua as beautiful now?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the Redonda stamp scandal.
2. How does the Antigua of the present compare to the Antigua of the past?
3. What happens when the English leave Antigua at the end of Section 4?
4. What does the narrator describe as surreal, besides the island?
5. What is the purpose of the paradoxical contradiction of the surrealism of Antigua and the ordinariness of the people who live there?
6. Describe the only two Prime Ministers that Antigua has had in the thirty years that it has been a self-governing nation.
7. Where is the library now situated, and what is happening with the books, according to Section 3?
8. When are Africans brought to Antigua, by whom, and why?
9. In Section 4, which characters are static, and which characters are dynamic?
10. In Section 4, what role does emancipation play?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the sarcastic tone of the book affect comprehension of "A Small Place?" Why is this tone used, and what is its result?
Essay Topic 2
What role does social class play in "A Small Place?" What different classes are represented and by which people?
Essay Topic 3
Investigate "A Small Place" as a panegyric. How does it adhere to and differ from the typical panegyric? What changes could be made to mark it more clearly as a panegyric? What changes could be made to prevent critics from classifying the book as a panegyric?
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