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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. In Section 4, who is the oppressor?

2. Who has green cards that allow them to escape to the United States?

3. How are the Antiguan utility companies set up?

4. What is now situated above a dry-goods store?

5. When the English leave Antigua, what do the slaveholders become?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the Antiguans taken advantage of due to their innocence and naivete?

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

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

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

5. When was Antigua discovered and by whom?

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

7. What is said about casinos is Section 3, and what will actually occur, according to the narrator?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Investigate "A Small Place" as a panegyric. How does it adhere to and differ from the typical panegyric? What changes could be made to mark it more clearly as a panegyric? What changes could be made to prevent critics from classifying the book as a panegyric?

Essay Topic 2

How is the library used as a symbol in "A Small Place?" Why is it significant that the library is not restored?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast V. C. Bird and the narrator. How are their relationships with Antiguans similar and different?

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