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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who considers what being real people submerged in the unreality of Antigua must do to the people?
(a) The Antiguans.
(b) The headmistress of the girls' school.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The Prime Minister.

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

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

8. How does the author describe how beautiful Antigua was before?
(a) It was not beautiful before.
(b) Wonderfully.
(c) Ordinarily.
(d) Surreally.

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

10. Antigua's beauty is the same now as when Antiguans were what?
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Slaveholders.
(d) Homeless.

11. When do the slaveholders cease to be selfish rubbish?
(a) When they bring slaves to Antigua.
(b) After emancipation.
(c) They never cease to be selfish rubbish.
(d) They are never selfish rubbish.

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

13. What does Section 4 begin as?
(a) A story about the narrator's past.
(b) A political pamphlet published to overthrow the Antiguan government.
(c) A panegyric to the narrator's homeland.
(d) An outcry at the injustices of the Antiguan people.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is established to promote better wages, working conditions and life for Antiguans?

2. Who serves as Prime Minister for twenty-five of Antigua's thirty years as a self-governing nation?

3. What is Bird's ruthless son dying from?

4. Who brought Africans to Antigua?

5. Who returns to their lands at the end of Section 4?

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