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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 now situated above a dry-goods store?

2. What is the setting of "A Small Place?"

3. When V. C. Bird reassumes his station, how long is the other Prime Minister imprisoned for?

4. What do Antiguans call Bird's ruthless son?

5. Why is Bird's less ruthless son not a threat to Antiguans?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the only two Prime Ministers that Antigua has had in the thirty years that it has been a self-governing nation.

2. Where is the library now situated, and what is happening with the books, according to Section 3?

3. 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?

4. How are the Antiguans taken advantage of due to their innocence and naivete?

5. What happens when the English leave Antigua at the end of Section 4?

6. Why do all Antiguan ministers possess green cards, and what happens to honest ministers?

7. What does the narrator compare to Antigua in Section 4, and how does she use this analogy?

8. What happens to the acting Governor General when the Governor General goes to Europe in the months before Antigua's carnival?

9. How does the narrator describe Antigua at the beginning of Section 4?

10. Describe the Redonda stamp scandal.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

How does the corruption of the Antiguan government impede development in Antigua?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the main themes in this book and detail its recurrences throughout the book. What does it add to the book? How does it affect the different people described in the book?

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