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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What is the old library now used as?
(a) A school.
(b) Storage.
(c) A library.
(d) The headquarters of a carnival troupe.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. Who in Section 4 is described as submerged in the unreality of Antigua?
(a) No one.
(b) Real people.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The English.

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

12. Who is not permitted time on the radio to defend themselves?
(a) The narrator and her mother.
(b) The English.
(c) Opposition parties.
(d) The Antiguan government.

13. Who is in charge of the Treasury, Tourism and Public Works?
(a) It changes annually.
(b) Bird's two sons.
(c) V. C. Bird.
(d) The narrator.

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

15. What did the Antiguans hope the second Prime Minister would bring to Antigua?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Luxury and relaxation.
(c) The Antiguans had no hopes for the second Prime Minister.
(d) Honesty and prosperity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Section 4 begin as?

3. When Antigua becomes self-governing, what happens to the Queen's stand-in?

4. When the English leave Antigua, what do the slaveholders become?

5. How many Prime Ministers has Antigua had in its thirty years as a self-governing nation?

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