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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 returns to their lands at the end of Section 4?

2. How many Prime Ministers has Antigua had in its thirty years as a self-governing nation?

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

4. How does the narrator describe the English?

5. Who does the narrator see as innocent and naïve?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the narrator say about small events which occur in small places?

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

6. Why do all Antiguan ministers possess green cards, and what happens to honest ministers?

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

8. How does the Antigua of the present compare to the Antigua of the past?

9. When was Antigua discovered and by whom?

10. When the narrator was a child, what did the head librarian suspect, and what does the narrator say about these suspicions?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

How does the monopoly of organizations (utilities, car dealerships, etc.) negatively affect Antiguans?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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