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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XXVI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the geographer define ephemeral?
(a) "Hard to quantify."
(b) "Inside eternal beings."
(c) "In the area of fumeral springs."
(d) "In danger of speedy disappearance."

2. What does the first creature the prince meets on earth offer the little prince?
(a) To teach him the difference between good and evil.
(b) To send him back from whence he came.
(c) To teach him all about the earth and its people.
(d) To guide him out of the desert.

3. What is the subject of the drawing in Chapter I?
(a) A rose.
(b) A little planet.
(c) Two volcanos.
(d) A boa constrictor.

4. How many people, approximately, does the narrator say live on the earth?
(a) 462,511.
(b) Too many to count.
(c) Only one. The pilot.
(d) 2,000,000,000.

5. What does the little prince know about the pilot's engine in Chapter XXVI?
(a) That the pilot has fixed it.
(b) That it will never run.
(c) That the snake has stolen the crucial parts.
(d) That it is going to be a long time before it gets mended.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would the geographer be best described?

2. What is the little prince's plan to safeguard his planet from baobabs?

3. What is the businessman doing when the prince first comes across him?

4. How does the author use light imagery in the chapter about trains?

5. How many petals do the ordinary flowers on the prince's planet have?

(see the answer key)

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