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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 discovered Antigua?

2. Who is the Queen's stand-in in Antigua before the island becomes self-governing?

3. Who leaves Antigua?

4. Why is Bird's less ruthless son not a threat to Antiguans?

5. What is the old library now used as?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When was Antigua discovered and by whom?

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

4. How are the Antiguans taken advantage of due to their innocence and naivete?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does the narrator say about small events which occur in small places?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What role does social class play in "A Small Place?" What different classes are represented and by which people?

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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