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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 does the narrator criticize about Antigua in Section 4?
2. Who returns to their lands at the end of Section 4?
3. What did the Antiguans hope the second Prime Minister would bring to Antigua?
4. What is established to promote better wages, working conditions and life for Antiguans?
5. When the English leave Antigua, what do Antiguans cease to be?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Section 4, which characters are static, and which characters are dynamic?
2. What do the Syrians and Lebanese do in Antigua?
3. How are slaves and slaveholders viewed by the narrator in Section 4?
4. What is the purpose of the paradoxical contradiction of the surrealism of Antigua and the ordinariness of the people who live there?
5. What role do the slave records play in Section 3?
6. Where is the library now situated, and what is happening with the books, according to Section 3?
7. How does the narrator describe Antigua at the beginning of Section 4?
8. When the narrator was a child, what did the head librarian suspect, and what does the narrator say about these suspicions?
9. What does the narrator describe as surreal, besides the island?
10. Describe the only two Prime Ministers that Antigua has had in the thirty years that it has been a self-governing nation.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What genre is "A Small Place" considered, and do you agree that this is the best genre to use to present the author's information?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
How does the monopoly of organizations (utilities, car dealerships, etc.) negatively affect Antiguans?
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