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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is named after an English Princess?

2. Since when has the library been closed?

3. How do the tourists feel around the natives?

4. How do the tourists feel about the three similar objects that they pass?

5. What do the Antiguans celebrate as a holiday?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the natives feel about the tourists?

2. How do native Antiguans feel about the foreigners who inhabit their island, as described in Section 2?

3. How does the narrator feel about the English at the beginning of Section 2?

4. In Section 2, what laws does the narrator recall, and what complicated these laws?

5. How do tourists view Antigua in comparison to nearby islands, and why?

6. How does modern Antigua compare to the Antigua of the narrator's youth?

7. How did the narrator feel about the Governor House as a child, and what did she see there?

8. How is Queen Victoria celebrated in Antigua and England?

9. What do the tourists not consider while swimming in the ocean?

10. What in Antigua is named after an English Princess, what happens before she visits the island, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the main themes in this book and detail its recurrences throughout the book. What does it add to the book? How does it affect the different people described in the book?

Essay Topic 2

How does the corruption of the Antiguan government impede development in Antigua?

Essay Topic 3

Investigate "A Small Place" as a panegyric. How does it adhere to and differ from the typical panegyric? What changes could be made to mark it more clearly as a panegyric? What changes could be made to prevent critics from classifying the book as a panegyric?

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