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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 Section 4, who is oppressed?

2. Who considers what being real people submerged in the unreality of Antigua must do to the people?

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

4. What adds to the surrealism of the island, according to Section 4?

5. What paradoxical contradiction serves to provide another fault of Antigua?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the slaves and slaveholders compared in Section 4?

2. When was Antigua discovered and by whom?

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

4. How does Section 4 begin as a panegyric, and how does it change?

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

6. What happens when the English leave Antigua at the end of Section 4?

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

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

9. Describe the only two Prime Ministers that Antigua has had in the thirty years that it has been a self-governing nation.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of wealth in this book? What events are driven by wealth and poverty? How are the people in Antigua viewed based on their pecuniary success?

Essay Topic 2

How is the library used as a symbol in "A Small Place?" Why is it significant that the library is not restored?

Essay Topic 3

How does the sarcastic tone of the book affect comprehension of "A Small Place?" Why is this tone used, and what is its result?

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