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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 kind of characters are the English?

2. What does Section 4 begin as?

3. How many Prime Ministers has Antigua had in its thirty years as a self-governing nation?

4. Who brought Africans to Antigua?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the Antigua of the present compare to the Antigua of the past?

3. What does the narrator compare to Antigua in Section 4, and how does she use this analogy?

4. What happens to the acting Governor General when the Governor General goes to Europe in the months before Antigua's carnival?

5. Why does the narrator consider what the island's beauty must do to the natives?

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

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

8. What do the Syrians and Lebanese do in Antigua?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How does the narrator feel about tourists, the English and foreigners living in Antigua? Why does she feel this way?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast V. C. Bird and the narrator. How are their relationships with Antiguans similar and different?

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