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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. In regard to the laws that the narrator recalls being passed, what do the English have difficulty determining?

2. What does the narrator pity?

3. Who are presented as the antagonists of Section 2?

4. What do the tourists originally think the school is?

5. What is the Czechoslovakian refugee trained as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does language play in Section 2?

2. How does the narrator feel about Europeans, as described in Section 1?

3. What do the tourists think about the school in Section 1?

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

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

6. When the English leave Antigua, what do they condemn, and what do they praise?

7. How do tourists arrive in Antigua, and what do they do upon their arrival?

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

9. What does the narrator say about the library in Section 2?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the different symbols used throughout the book to represent abstract concepts? Detail and explain how the symbols are used to describe certain abstract concepts and which concepts they describe.

Essay Topic 2

What are the different settings of "A Small Place" (overall and more specific settings)? What do the different settings reveal to the reader about Antigua and its culture?

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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