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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. According to the narrator in Section 3, what has become a tourist attraction?
(a) Antiguans' degradation.
(b) Antigua's historical monuments.
(c) Antigua's beauty.
(d) Antiguans' poverty.

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

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

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

10. Who returns to their lands at the end of Section 4?
(a) Slaveholders.
(b) No one.
(c) Slaves.
(d) The narrator.

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

12. How does the author describe Antigua as beautiful now?
(a) Wonderfully.
(b) Ordinarily.
(c) In exactly the same way as before.
(d) It is not beautiful now.

13. What happens to honest ministers which encourages other ministers to be corrupt?
(a) They are murdered.
(b) They suffer poverty after their term ends.
(c) They are mocked and ridiculed.
(d) They must stand trial for treason before the Antiguan government.

14. Who discovered Antigua?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) African refugees.
(c) Christopher Columbus.
(d) Ponce de Leon.

15. What is now situated above a dry-goods store?
(a) The school.
(b) The narrator's life.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The library.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the English?

2. When do the slaveholders cease to be selfish rubbish?

3. What does the narrator praise in Section 4?

4. Why were Africans brought to Antigua?

5. Who is notorious for voicing their opinions and supporting the second successful political party that Antigua has?

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