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

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

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

4. Who brought Africans to Antigua?
(a) The Swiss.
(b) Americans.
(c) The English.
(d) Africans came to Antigua on their own.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is held to raise funds to repair the library?

2. Who has green cards that allow them to escape to the United States?

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

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

5. When do the African slaves cease to be noble and exalted?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Redonda stamp scandal.

2. When was Antigua discovered and by whom?

3. How does the narrator describe Antigua at the beginning of Section 4?

4. In Section 4, what role does emancipation play?

5. When the narrator decides to speak to the lady whose family helped establish the Mill Reef Club, what does the lady say, and how does the narrator feel about this?

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

7. What role do the slave records play in Section 3?

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

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

10. In Section 4, which characters are static, and which characters are dynamic?

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