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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. Whose beautiful poorness is unreal?

2. Why were Africans brought to Antigua?

3. Who is notorious for voicing their opinions and supporting the second successful political party that Antigua has?

4. Who in Section 4 is described as submerged in the unreality of Antigua?

5. What does the narrator praise in Section 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the purpose of the paradoxical contradiction of the surrealism of Antigua and the ordinariness of the people who live there?

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

5. What do the Syrians and Lebanese do in Antigua?

6. In regard to the Bird family, what are Antiguans' concerns, and how are these concerns lessened?

7. When was Antigua discovered and by whom?

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

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

10. How are the slaves and slaveholders compared in Section 4?

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

Compare and contrast the Antiguans and the tourists.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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