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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were Africans brought to Antigua?
(a) To build homes.
(b) They sought religious freedom.
(c) To be slaves.
(d) To teach the English about agriculture.

2. How does the author describe how beautiful Antigua was before?
(a) It was not beautiful before.
(b) Ordinarily.
(c) Wonderfully.
(d) Surreally.

3. Why is the narrator offended by the reference to "her girls," as stated by the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?
(a) Because her girls are illiterate.
(b) Because the lady discourages her girls from reading.
(c) Because the lady states that her girls should get married young.
(d) Because "her girls" are grown Antiguan women.

4. When the English leave Antigua, what do Antiguans cease to be?
(a) Ordinary people.
(b) Noble, exalted slaves.
(c) Homesick and unhappy.
(d) A selfish, miserable disease.

5. Who is freed in a way when the English leave Antigua?
(a) The Syrians.
(b) The English.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Slaves.

6. Who in Section 4 is described as submerged in the unreality of Antigua?
(a) Real people.
(b) The English.
(c) No one.
(d) The narrator.

7. Who outbids the Antiguan government at an auction for slave records?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The Lebanese.
(c) The swindler from the Far East.
(d) The Syrians.

8. When V. C. Bird reassumes his station, how long is the other Prime Minister imprisoned for?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 6 years.

9. Who leaves Antigua?
(a) Slaveholders.
(b) Syrians.
(c) Africans.
(d) The narrator.

10. What is the old library now used as?
(a) A school.
(b) The headquarters of a carnival troupe.
(c) A library.
(d) Storage.

11. What does the author say is lacking to separate Antiguans from the past?
(a) Emancipation.
(b) Laws.
(c) Time.
(d) A historical moment.

12. What is more exaggerated in a small place like Antigua?
(a) Poverty.
(b) The corruption of government.
(c) The ambiguity of events.
(d) Slavery and emancipation.

13. When do the African slaves cease to be noble and exalted?
(a) They are never noble and exalted.
(b) When they are brought to Antigua.
(c) After emancipation.
(d) They never cease to be noble and exalted.

14. What is the setting of "A Small Place?"
(a) Antigua.
(b) Africa.
(c) England.
(d) America.

15. Who is notorious for voicing their opinions and supporting the second successful political party that Antigua has?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) The headmistress of the girls' school.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The lady whose family helped establish the Mill Reef Club.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Section 4, who is the oppressor?

2. Why does the narrator think Antigua is in worse condition as a self-ruled nation?

3. What did the Antiguans hope the second Prime Minister would bring to Antigua?

4. How does the author describe Antigua as beautiful now?

5. What do Antiguans call Bird's ruthless son?

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