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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 does not work for the Barclay Brothers for a long time?

2. What is admired about the island?

3. What does the author say in Section 2 that the English steal from the Antiguans?

4. What has changed since the narrator's youth?

5. What language do Antiguans speak?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about Europeans, as described in Section 1?

2. How does the Czechoslovakian refugee earn his living, and how does he feel about native Antiguans?

3. According to the narrator at the end of Section 1, what is the association between all tourists and all natives?

4. What role does language play in Section 2?

5. How do native Antiguans feel about the foreigners who inhabit their island, as described in Section 2?

6. What do tourists consider, and what do they not consider?

7. How does the narrator say Antiguans feel about capitalism, and why?

8. What does the taxi driver tell the tourists about the second mansion in Section 1?

9. What does the headmistress of the girls' school often say, and how does the narrator feel about this?

10. What in Antigua is named after an English Princess, what happens before she visits the island, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the different symbols used throughout the book to represent abstract concepts? Detail and explain how the symbols are used to describe certain abstract concepts and which concepts they describe.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What are the different settings of "A Small Place" (overall and more specific settings)? What do the different settings reveal to the reader about Antigua and its culture?

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