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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are slaves brought to Antigua?
(a) To populate the island.
(b) For prosperity.
(c) Slaves are not brought to Antigua.
(d) For entertainment.

2. According to the narrator in Section 3, what has become a tourist attraction?
(a) Antigua's historical monuments.
(b) Antiguans' poverty.
(c) Antiguans' degradation.
(d) Antigua's beauty.

3. Whose suspicions of the narrator as a child were justified?
(a) The narrator's mother's.
(b) The Primer Minister's.
(c) The headmistress of the narrator's school.
(d) The head librarian's.

4. What adds to the surrealism of the island, according to Section 4?
(a) The English.
(b) The natives' beliefs.
(c) The natives.
(d) The sea, sky and everything.

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

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

7. What does Section 4 begin as?
(a) A political pamphlet published to overthrow the Antiguan government.
(b) A panegyric to the narrator's homeland.
(c) An outcry at the injustices of the Antiguan people.
(d) A story about the narrator's past.

8. Where does the narrator's friend travel?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Antigua.
(c) America.
(d) England.

9. What do Antiguans call Bird's ruthless son?
(a) Doctor Jekyl.
(b) Papa Doc.
(c) Papa Poverty.
(d) Doctor Dolittle.

10. Who is not permitted time on the radio to defend themselves?
(a) Opposition parties.
(b) The Antiguan government.
(c) The English.
(d) The narrator and her mother.

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

12. What does the narrator speak about to the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?
(a) Restoring the library.
(b) Electing a new Prime Minister.
(c) Her family's history.
(d) Purchasing Antigua's slave records.

13. Where is the beauty locked up, according to Section 4?
(a) In the Government House.
(b) In the minds of the natives.
(c) In hope and love.
(d) In a prison.

14. What is now situated above a dry-goods store?
(a) The hospital.
(b) The library.
(c) The school.
(d) The narrator's life.

15. What kind of characters are the English?
(a) Dynamic.
(b) Lamentable.
(c) Static.
(d) Comical.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the swindler from the Far East help build?

4. Who is in charge of the Treasury, Tourism and Public Works?

5. Who serves as Prime Minister for twenty-five of Antigua's thirty years as a self-governing nation?

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