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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose beautiful poorness is unreal?
(a) The slaves'.
(b) The narrator's.
(c) The villages'.
(d) The English's.

2. What is the tone of most of "A Small Place?"
(a) Comical.
(b) Mournful.
(c) Reverent.
(d) Sarcastic.

3. Who has green cards that allow them to escape to the United States?
(a) All Antiguan ministers of government.
(b) All Antiguans.
(c) No one.
(d) The narrator and her family.

4. Who is in charge of the Treasury, Tourism and Public Works?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Bird's two sons.
(c) V. C. Bird.
(d) It changes annually.

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

6. During the second Prime Minister's term, what happened to the sugar industry?
(a) It went bankrupt.
(b) It never existed.
(c) It ceased to exist.
(d) It profited.

7. Why is the narrator unable to talk to the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport?
(a) He is at a sporting event out of town.
(b) He is visiting his family in Europe.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He hates her because of her mother.

8. What does the swindler from the Far East help build?
(a) Condominiums for Americans.
(b) The Redonda stamps.
(c) The Antiguan library.
(d) West Indies Oil Refinery.

9. What happens to honest ministers which encourages other ministers to be corrupt?
(a) They must stand trial for treason before the Antiguan government.
(b) They suffer poverty after their term ends.
(c) They are mocked and ridiculed.
(d) They are murdered.

10. What do Antiguans worry that the Birds will be unwilling to relinquish?
(a) Their loving natures.
(b) Their immense wealth.
(c) Political power.
(d) Their estate in Antigua.

11. Why is Bird's less ruthless son not a threat to Antiguans?
(a) He is too old.
(b) He is married to a kind woman who will not allow him to be cruel to Antiguans.
(c) He is too opulent to be a true leader.
(d) He is already dead.

12. When were Africans brought to Antigua?
(a) In 1567.
(b) Never.
(c) Not long after its discovery.
(d) Recently.

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

14. Who considers what being real people submerged in the unreality of Antigua must do to the people?
(a) The headmistress of the girls' school.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The Prime Minister.
(d) The Antiguans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is not permitted time on the radio to defend themselves?

2. How much money do the French send for development, though it mysteriously disappears?

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

4. Why is the narrator offended by the reference to "her girls," as stated by the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?

5. How does the author describe how beautiful Antigua was before?

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