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

2. Who may relent and assist in building a new library?

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

4. What falls with an unreal force that tears up the earth?

5. What is established to promote better wages, working conditions and life for Antiguans?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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. In Section 4, what role does emancipation play?

8. Describe the Redonda stamp scandal.

9. When was Antigua discovered and by whom?

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

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

Which groups of people are present in the book as the protagonist and the antagonist? Why?

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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