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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. When Antigua becomes self-governing, what happens to the Queen's stand-in?

2. Who is freed in a way when the English leave Antigua?

3. How much money do the French send for development, though it mysteriously disappears?

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

5. What does the narrator's mother argue about with the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What role do the slave records play in Section 3?

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

6. 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?

7. When was Antigua discovered and by whom?

8. In Section 4, which characters are static, and which characters are dynamic?

9. What does the narrator describe as surreal, besides the island?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the first-person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the book? How would the book be different if a different point-of-view were used?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Jamaica Kincaid claim that "all natives are tourists?" How has the condition of the Antiguans changed since their emancipation from slavery?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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