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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the railway switchmen think of children?
(a) Children should become adults as soon as possible.
(b) Children should not bother busy switchmen while they are working.
(c) Children waste too much time.
(d) Only children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes. They are lucky.

2. What does the little prince decide that they should look for to quench their thirst in Chapter XXIV?
(a) A well.
(b) Death.
(c) Baobab trees.
(d) A bottle of thirst quenching pills.

3. On his own planet, what does the little prince use the extinct volcano for?
(a) An oven.
(b) A landmark to find his way home.
(c) It is useless, so he doesn't use it at all.
(d) A footstool.

4. How many men does the flower think there are on earth?
(a) Three billion.
(b) Six or seven.
(c) Only the pilot.
(d) Perhaps 10,000 or more. She is not sure.

5. What does the lamplighter love to do most, which he is never able to do?
(a) Rest.
(b) Travel to far away places.
(c) Invent electricity.
(d) Have a big party for all the people on his planet.

6. How many roses are in the garden that the little prince discovers?
(a) More than ten.
(b) Three.
(c) Five hundred.
(d) Five thousand.

7. How many flowers does the little prince meet in the desert?
(a) About 15. They are all fighting over water.
(b) Only one.
(c) On the baobab tree there were three lovely flowers.
(d) Hundreds. A vast garden of roses and lilacs.

8. What structure is near the well?
(a) A ladder which reaches up into the clouds.
(b) An amphitheatre, long out of use.
(c) The ruin of an old stone wall.
(d) A plane, new and ready to be flown.

9. Who does the allegorical character of the pill merchant represent?
(a) The pharmaceutical industry.
(b) People who sell us things we don't need.
(c) Wall street brokers.
(d) The physician and his team of nurses.

10. What is the selling point which the pill merchant offers the little prince?
(a) Everyone is using these pills.
(b) The pills save a tremendous amount of time.
(c) The pills are necessary for a high quality of life.
(d) The pills are cost effective.

11. According to the switchman, what are the adults in the trains pursuing?
(a) Each other.
(b) Money and fame.
(c) Nothing at all.
(d) Getting to their destination first.

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

13. What is unique about the fifth planet, the lamplighter's planet?
(a) It is the smallest.
(b) There are so many people running around and singing.
(c) It is spinning at an incredible rate.
(d) It is made of soft rubber.

14. On the little prince's planet, who would speak first, himself or his flower?
(a) They both talk at once, they are so excited about everything.
(b) His flower does not speak.
(c) He has to start every conversation.
(d) His flower is always the first to speak.

15. How does the little prince feel when he first arrives on the earth?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Very happy.
(c) Victorious and confident.
(d) Finally at peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days have the pilot and little prince been together when the pilot drinks the last of his water supply?

2. How would the geographer be best described?

3. Why does the geographer think someone who drinks too much is not a reliable source?

4. When he emerges from the desert, where does the little prince go?

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

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