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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 is Bird's ruthless son dying from?

2. What happens to honest ministers which encourages other ministers to be corrupt?

3. What is more exaggerated in a small place like Antigua?

4. When were Africans brought to Antigua?

5. What do Antiguans call Bird's ruthless son?

Short Essay Questions

1. When was Antigua discovered and by whom?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How is foreshadowing used in "A Small Place?" Choose one major instance of foreshadowing and follow it through the book, finishing with how the event is fulfilled.

Essay Topic 3

How does the monopoly of organizations (utilities, car dealerships, etc.) negatively affect Antiguans?

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