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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. When the English leave Antigua, what do Antiguans cease to be?
2. Why is Bird's less ruthless son not a threat to Antiguans?
3. Who is the Queen's stand-in in Antigua before the island becomes self-governing?
4. What does the narrator speak about to the lady whose family established the Mill Reef Club?
5. During the second Prime Minister's term, what happened to the sugar industry?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the slaves and slaveholders compared in Section 4?
2. How are slaves and slaveholders viewed by the narrator in Section 4?
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. Describe the only two Prime Ministers that Antigua has had in the thirty years that it has been a self-governing nation.
5. Why do all Antiguan ministers possess green cards, and what happens to honest ministers?
6. What does the narrator say about small events which occur in small places?
7. What do the Syrians and Lebanese do in Antigua?
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 Section 4 begin as a panegyric, and how does it change?
10. Describe the Redonda stamp scandal.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does Jamaica Kincaid claim that "all natives are tourists?" How has the condition of the Antiguans changed since their emancipation from slavery?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What role does social class play in "A Small Place?" What different classes are represented and by which people?
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