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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. Who serves as a hyperbolic paradox of the Antiguans?

2. How do the natives view the comments about their children behaving like monkeys?

3. What either frightens or thrills the tourists?

4. What indicates that the building is actually a school?

5. What is done so that the English Princess will have a favorable impression of Antigua?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the Czechoslovakian refugee earn his living, and how does he feel about native Antiguans?

4. What does the taxi driver tell the tourists about the third mansion in Section 1?

5. How does the narrator view tourists, as described in Section 1?

6. How do the tourists react to the hospital, and what is the narrator's opinion about this?

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

8. What role does language play in Section 2?

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

10. According to the narrator at the end of Section 1, what is the association between all tourists and all natives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the Antiguans and the tourists.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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