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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the plane crash happen?
(a) Death Valley.
(b) The Atlantic Ocean.
(c) A high, high mountain.
(d) The Desert of Sahara.

2. What is the first picture that the narrator actually draws for the little prince?
(a) The night sky.
(b) A boa constrictor from the outside.
(c) A big flock of sheep.
(d) A cup of tea.

3. How many asteroid planets does the little prince visit in total?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Too many to count.
(c) Six.
(d) Two.

4. Why does the little prince weed his planet every morning?
(a) He likes playing in the dirt.
(b) He is a workaholic.
(c) To keep the dangerous plants from taking root.
(d) It is the law on his world that everyone weed each morning.

5. Why does the laughter of the little prince annoy the pilot so much?
(a) The prince has a very loud obnoxious laugh.
(b) The pilot likes his misfortunes to be taken seriously.
(c) The pilot has no sense of humor.
(d) The prince never stops laughing.

6. What is the tippler ashamed of?
(a) The fact that he is bowlegged.
(b) Nothing. He is a happy fellow.
(c) His clothing.
(d) Drinking.

7. How big is the little prince's planet, as described in Chapter IV?
(a) Very hot from all the lava flowing over it.
(b) Newly formed from a black hole.
(c) Wide and flat, like a giant frisbee.
(d) Scarcely any larger than a house.

8. What is the little prince feeling much of the time?
(a) The little prince feels nothing. He is numb.
(b) The little prince is always happy and cheerful.
(c) The little prince often feels sad.
(d) The little prince is incapable of feeling, that is the problem.

9. How many times in the 54 years the businessman has inhabited his planet has he been disturbed?
(a) Three. The little prince is the third disturbance.
(b) Never.
(c) Constantly. That's why he can never finish counting.
(d) He can't remember. He pays no attention to such things.

10. What does the king of the first asteroid planet the prince visits believe he rules over?
(a) Everything.
(b) Himself.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The prince.

11. Why is it hard to learn where the little prince came from?
(a) He doesn't know where he is from.
(b) He is a spy.
(c) He speaks only Russian.
(d) He never seems to hear the questions asked of him.

12. When the little prince leaves his planet, does he plan to ever return?
(a) Yes, he is just planning a short vacation.
(b) No.
(c) Yes, he is just going to find more flowers.
(d) He doesn't have a plan one way or the other.

13. What is the little prince's plan to safeguard his planet from baobabs?
(a) To bring sheep to his planet, so they can eat young baobab bushes.
(b) To lasso his planet and bring it closer to earth.
(c) To clone himself and colonize other planets across the galaxy.
(d) To plant a great garden which would feed all his people.

14. Who is the scholar that discovers the little prince's planet?
(a) The International Astronomical Observer.
(b) A flock of geese living in an observatory.
(c) The pilot's father, who is an astronaut.
(d) A Turkish astronomer who sees it only once through his telescope.

15. How many times in one day does the sun set on the little prince's planet?
(a) 4 times.
(b) 44 times.
(c) 400 times.
(d) 40 times.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the king of the first asteroid planet the prince visits call the prince?

2. What is the tippler doing?

3. What is another word that the translator might have used instead of tippler?

4. How many people were on the plane when it crashes?

5. When the little prince sees the airplane for the first time what does he say?

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