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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say in Section 4 is so beautiful that it is unreal?
(a) The neighboring islands.
(b) Religion.
(c) The natives.
(d) Antigua.

2. What does the narrator speak about to the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?
(a) Electing a new Prime Minister.
(b) Restoring the library.
(c) Purchasing Antigua's slave records.
(d) Her family's history.

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

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

5. Who serves as Prime Minister for twenty-five of Antigua's thirty years as a self-governing nation?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Victor Cornelius Birdman.
(c) The librarian.
(d) Vere Cornwall Bird.

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

7. What kind of character is the island of Antigua?
(a) Dynamic.
(b) Lamentable.
(c) Comical.
(d) Static.

8. Who does the narrator see as innocent and naïve?
(a) Tourists.
(b) Ministers of government.
(c) The English.
(d) Antiguans.

9. Why is Bird's less ruthless son not a threat to Antiguans?
(a) He is too opulent to be a true leader.
(b) He is married to a kind woman who will not allow him to be cruel to Antiguans.
(c) He is already dead.
(d) He is too old.

10. Why is the narrator offended by the reference to "her girls," as stated by the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?
(a) Because the lady discourages her girls from reading.
(b) Because the lady states that her girls should get married young.
(c) Because "her girls" are grown Antiguan women.
(d) Because her girls are illiterate.

11. What does a government official condone during a radio appearance?
(a) The Redonda stamps.
(b) Establishing a labor union for Antiguans.
(c) Building casinos.
(d) Rebuilding the library.

12. When do the African slaves cease to be noble and exalted?
(a) When they are brought to Antigua.
(b) After emancipation.
(c) They never cease to be noble and exalted.
(d) They are never noble and exalted.

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

14. Who owns much land in Antigua?
(a) Evita.
(b) Syrians and Lebanese.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The Prime Minister.

15. 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 surrealism of the scene and the ordinariness of the people.
(d) The beauty of the island and the ugliness of the tourists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose suspicions of the narrator as a child were justified?

2. How much money do the French send for development, though it mysteriously disappears?

3. How are the Antiguan utility companies set up?

4. What are used as havens for drug smuggling in Antigua?

5. What is more exaggerated in a small place like Antigua?

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