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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. Who are ordinary people, according to the author in Section 4?
3. Where does the narrator's friend travel?
4. How are the Antiguan utility companies set up?
5. Who is notorious for voicing their opinions and supporting the second successful political party that Antigua has?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where is the library now situated, and what is happening with the books, according to Section 3?
2. When the narrator decides to speak to the lady whose family helped establish the Mill Reef Club, what does the lady say, and how does the narrator feel about this?
3. What is said about casinos is Section 3, and what will actually occur, according to the narrator?
4. When the narrator was a child, what did the head librarian suspect, and what does the narrator say about these suspicions?
5. In regard to the Bird family, what are Antiguans' concerns, and how are these concerns lessened?
6. What is the purpose of the paradoxical contradiction of the surrealism of Antigua and the ordinariness of the people who live there?
7. How does the Antigua of the present compare to the Antigua of the past?
8. How are the Antiguans taken advantage of due to their innocence and naivete?
9. Why does the narrator consider what the island's beauty must do to the natives?
10. What does the narrator compare to Antigua in Section 4, and how does she use this analogy?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Which groups of people are present in the book as the protagonist and the antagonist? Why?
Essay Topic 2
How does the sarcastic tone of the book affect comprehension of "A Small Place?" Why is this tone used, and what is its result?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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