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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 realize the cruelty of their actions concerning slavery?

2. What is done so that the English Princess will have a favorable impression of Antigua?

3. What does Antigua's drier climate result from?

4. What do the Antiguans celebrate as a holiday?

5. Who owns the car dealerships in Antigua?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the English teach the Antiguans crime, according to the narrator in Section 2?

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

3. What do the tourists think about the natives?

4. How does modern Antigua compare to the Antigua of the narrator's youth?

5. Describe the Mill Reef Club.

6. How do the tourists react to the hospital, and what is the narrator's opinion about this?

7. How did the narrator feel about the Governor House as a child, and what did she see there?

8. In Section 2, what laws does the narrator recall, and what complicated these laws?

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

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

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

Which groups of people are present in the book as the protagonist and the antagonist? Why?

Essay Topic 3

What is the significance of wealth in this book? What events are driven by wealth and poverty? How are the people in Antigua viewed based on their pecuniary success?

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