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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 are used as havens for drug smuggling in Antigua?

2. When was Antigua discovered?

3. How does the narrator describe the English?

4. During the second Prime Minister's term, what happened to the sugar industry?

5. When the English leave Antigua, what do the slaveholders become?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is the library now situated, and what is happening with the books, according to Section 3?

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

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

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

5. When the narrator was a child, what did the head librarian suspect, and what does the narrator say about these suspicions?

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

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

8. What does the narrator's friend say about Switzerland, and how does the narrator feel about this?

9. In regard to the Bird family, what are Antiguans' concerns, and how are these concerns lessened?

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

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

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

Which groups of people are present in the book as the protagonist and the antagonist? Why?

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