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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 is established to promote better wages, working conditions and life for Antiguans?
2. During the second Prime Minister's term, what happened to tourism?
3. What kind of characters are the Antiguans?
4. What did the Antiguans hope the second Prime Minister would bring to Antigua?
5. What is the old library now used as?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator say about small events which occur in small places?
2. When the narrator decides to speak to the lady whose family helped establish the Mill Reef Club, what does the lady say, and how does the narrator feel about this?
3. How does the Antigua of the present compare to the Antigua of the past?
4. What does the narrator compare to Antigua in Section 4, and how does she use this analogy?
5. In regard to the Bird family, what are Antiguans' concerns, and how are these concerns lessened?
6. What role do the slave records play in Section 3?
7. When the narrator was a child, what did the head librarian suspect, and what does the narrator say about these suspicions?
8. How does the narrator describe Antigua at the beginning of Section 4?
9. When are Africans brought to Antigua, by whom, and why?
10. What does the narrator's friend say about Switzerland, and how does the narrator feel about this?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What genre is "A Small Place" considered, and do you agree that this is the best genre to use to present the author's information?
Essay Topic 2
What role does social class play in "A Small Place?" What different classes are represented and by which people?
Essay Topic 3
How does the narrator feel about tourists, the English and foreigners living in Antigua? Why does she feel this way?
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