View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What paradoxical contradiction serves to provide another fault of Antigua?
(a) The poverty of the Antiguans and the wealth accumulated through the tourism industry.
(b) There are no paradoxical contradictions in "A Small Place."
(c) The beauty of the island and the ugliness of the tourists.
(d) The surrealism of the scene and the ordinariness of the people.

2. When was Antigua discovered?
(a) 1593.
(b) 1493.
(c) 1509.
(d) 1402.

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

4. What is Bird's ruthless son dying from?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Starvation.
(c) A blood disease.
(d) A brain tumor.

5. When were Africans brought to Antigua?
(a) Never.
(b) In 1567.
(c) Not long after its discovery.
(d) Recently.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the tourists normally reassured of?

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

3. What adds to the surrealism of the island, according to Section 4?

4. How do people arrive in Antigua at the beginning of Section 1?

5. Who is freed in a way when the English leave Antigua?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 234 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample