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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the narrator unable to talk to the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport?
(a) He is at a sporting event out of town.
(b) He hates her because of her mother.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He is visiting his family in Europe.

2. What is the setting of "A Small Place?"
(a) Antigua.
(b) America.
(c) Africa.
(d) England.

3. When the English leave Antigua, what do the slaveholders become?
(a) A selfish, miserable disease.
(b) Noble, exalted slaves.
(c) Ordinary people.
(d) Homesick and unhappy.

4. How much money do the French send for development, though it mysteriously disappears?
(a) $500.
(b) $11,000,000.
(c) $11,000,000,000.
(d) $5,000.

5. Who leaves Antigua?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Syrians.
(c) Slaveholders.
(d) Africans.

6. In Section 4, who is the oppressor?
(a) English slaveholders.
(b) African slaves.
(c) English slaves.
(d) African slaveholders.

7. Why are slaves brought to Antigua?
(a) For prosperity.
(b) For entertainment.
(c) Slaves are not brought to Antigua.
(d) To populate the island.

8. Where does the narrator's friend travel?
(a) America.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) England.
(d) Antigua.

9. When Antigua becomes self-governing, what happens to the Queen's stand-in?
(a) He becomes Prime Minister.
(b) He becomes Premier.
(c) He becomes President.
(d) He is assassinated.

10. What adds to the surrealism of the island, according to Section 4?
(a) The natives' beliefs.
(b) The English.
(c) The sea, sky and everything.
(d) The natives.

11. When the English leave Antigua, what do Antiguans become?
(a) Ordinary people.
(b) Homesick and unhappy.
(c) A selfish, miserable disease.
(d) Noble, exalted slaves.

12. Whose voice does the narrator utilize?
(a) V. C. Bird's.
(b) Jamaica Kincaid's.
(c) It varies throughout the book.
(d) Her mother's.

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

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

15. Who is notorious for voicing their opinions and supporting the second successful political party that Antigua has?
(a) The lady whose family helped establish the Mill Reef Club.
(b) The narrator's mother.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The headmistress of the girls' school.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the Antiguan utility companies set up?

2. In Section 4, who is oppressed?

3. What does a government official condone during a radio appearance?

4. Who discovered Antigua?

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

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