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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. How many Prime Ministers has Antigua had in its thirty years as a self-governing nation?
2. What are used as havens for drug smuggling in Antigua?
3. What does the author say is lacking to separate Antiguans from the past?
4. Why is the narrator unable to talk to the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport?
5. What happens to honest ministers which encourages other ministers to be corrupt?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are slaves and slaveholders viewed by the narrator in Section 4?
2. What does the narrator compare to Antigua in Section 4, and how does she use this analogy?
3. In Section 4, which characters are static, and which characters are dynamic?
4. When are Africans brought to Antigua, by whom, and why?
5. What is the purpose of the paradoxical contradiction of the surrealism of Antigua and the ordinariness of the people who live there?
6. What happens when the English leave Antigua at the end of Section 4?
7. What does the narrator say about small events which occur in small places?
8. When the narrator was a child, what did the head librarian suspect, and what does the narrator say about these suspicions?
9. What do the Syrians and Lebanese do in Antigua?
10. How does the Antigua of the present compare to the Antigua of the past?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
What is the significance of wealth in this book? What events are driven by wealth and poverty? How are the people in Antigua viewed based on their pecuniary success?
Essay Topic 3
How does the corruption of the Antiguan government impede development in Antigua?
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