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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who may relent and assist in building a new library?
(a) The Czechoslovakian refugee.
(b) Barclay Bank.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The Mill Reef Club.

3. What do Antiguans call Bird's ruthless son?
(a) Papa Poverty.
(b) Papa Doc.
(c) Doctor Jekyl.
(d) Doctor Dolittle.

4. Whose suspicions of the narrator as a child were justified?
(a) The headmistress of the narrator's school.
(b) The Primer Minister's.
(c) The narrator's mother's.
(d) The head librarian's.

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

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

7. Why does the narrator think Antigua is in worse condition as a self-ruled nation?
(a) Because of the corrupt government in power.
(b) Antigua is not a self-ruled nation.
(c) She does not think this.
(d) Because of the ignorance of the natives.

8. Where is the beauty locked up, according to Section 4?
(a) In the Government House.
(b) In the minds of the natives.
(c) In hope and love.
(d) In a prison.

9. Who is freed in a way when the English leave Antigua?
(a) The Syrians.
(b) Slaves.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The English.

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

11. What does the narrator praise in Section 4?
(a) Her own intelligence.
(b) The justice of the way that the English treat the Antiguans.
(c) The beauty and wonders of Antigua.
(d) The poverty of the Antiguans.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of character is the island of Antigua?

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

3. Why is the narrator offended by the reference to "her girls," as stated by the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?

4. According to the narrator in Section 3, what has become a tourist attraction?

5. Who is the Queen's stand-in in Antigua before the island becomes self-governing?

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