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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. What do North Americans found in Antigua?

2. What laws does the narrator recall being passed in her youth?

3. How do the Antiguans feel about the owners of the first mansion?

4. Who do the tourists see as superior to the natives and their ancestors?

5. How do the natives view the comments about their children behaving like monkeys?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the tourists think about the natives?

3. What does the narrator say about the library in Section 2?

4. How do the Barclay Brothers earn and sustain their wealth?

5. When the English leave Antigua, what do they condemn, and what do they praise?

6. How do tourists view Antigua in comparison to nearby islands, and why?

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

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

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

10. What do tourists think about when they notice the expensive Japanese cars?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the narrator feel about tourists, the English and foreigners living in Antigua? Why does she feel this way?

Essay Topic 2

How does the narrator change throughout the book? Detail the changes she makes and the reasons behind those changes.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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