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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the Antiguan utility companies set up?
(a) They are owned by Americans who visit Antigua on vacation.
(b) There are no utility companies in Antigua.
(c) As competitive entities.
(d) As monopolies.

2. What does a government official condone during a radio appearance?
(a) Building casinos.
(b) Establishing a labor union for Antiguans.
(c) Rebuilding the library.
(d) The Redonda stamps.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is not permitted time on the radio to defend themselves?

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

4. What does the narrator criticize about Antigua in Section 4?

5. What is the setting of "A Small Place?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What is said about casinos is Section 3, and what will actually occur, according to the narrator?

2. In regard to the Bird family, what are Antiguans' concerns, and how are these concerns lessened?

3. When are Africans brought to Antigua, by whom, and why?

4. What does the narrator say about small events which occur in small places?

5. How are slaves and slaveholders viewed by the narrator in Section 4?

6. How are the slaves and slaveholders compared in Section 4?

7. Why do all Antiguan ministers possess green cards, and what happens to honest ministers?

8. Where is the library now situated, and what is happening with the books, according to Section 3?

9. What is the purpose of the paradoxical contradiction of the surrealism of Antigua and the ordinariness of the people who live there?

10. When the narrator was a child, what did the head librarian suspect, and what does the narrator say about these suspicions?

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