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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When V. C. Bird reassumes his station, how long is the other Prime Minister imprisoned for?
(a) 6 years.
(b) 8 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 8 years.

2. Who are ordinary people, according to the author in Section 4?
(a) The Syrians.
(b) Antiguans.
(c) The foreigners who lives in Antigua.
(d) No one is ordinary.

3. What is held to raise funds to repair the library?
(a) A Teenage Pageant.
(b) An exhibition.
(c) A bake sale.
(d) An auction.

4. Who has green cards that allow them to escape to the United States?
(a) All Antiguans.
(b) All Antiguan ministers of government.
(c) No one.
(d) The narrator and her family.

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

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

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

8. During the second Prime Minister's term, what happened to the sugar industry?
(a) It ceased to exist.
(b) It never existed.
(c) It profited.
(d) It went bankrupt.

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

10. Who is suspected of murder but never convicted?
(a) Evita.
(b) The narrator.
(c) V. C. Bird.
(d) Syrians and Lebanese.

11. What are used as havens for drug smuggling in Antigua?
(a) The Antiguans' homes.
(b) Hotels.
(c) Car dealerships.
(d) Mansions.

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

13. What is more exaggerated in a small place like Antigua?
(a) Slavery and emancipation.
(b) Poverty.
(c) The ambiguity of events.
(d) The corruption of government.

14. What does the swindler from the Far East help build?
(a) The Antiguan library.
(b) Condominiums for Americans.
(c) The Redonda stamps.
(d) West Indies Oil Refinery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of characters are the Antiguans?

2. At the end of Section 4, who still lives in a surreal place?

3. What do Antiguans call Bird's ruthless son?

4. Who in Section 4 is described as submerged in the unreality of Antigua?

5. Who brought Africans to Antigua?

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