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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, where do the tourists behave as normal people?
(a) Everywhere.
(b) There is no such thing as normal people.
(c) In Antigua.
(d) At home.

2. Who is detained by customs searches?
(a) Native Antiguans.
(b) The tourists.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The English.

3. What is done so that the English Princess will have a favorable impression of Antigua?
(a) The hotel is lavishly decorated.
(b) English flags are flown from every possible pole.
(c) The streets and buildings are repaired.
(d) The natives are gathered for a parade.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Antiguans celebrate as a holiday?

2. What is now situated above a dry-goods store?

3. Whose girlfriend is the owner of the third mansion?

4. Antigua's beauty is the same now as when Antiguans were what?

5. What are the tourists normally reassured of?

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