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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator think of adults?
(a) They wear nice neckties.
(b) They don't have much imagination.
(c) They are too tall.
(d) They are mean.

2. How many people were on the plane when it crashes?
(a) Only one.
(b) All the people who were on the plane.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

3. In Chapter III, what does the little prince like about the box that the pilot has drawn?
(a) At night the sheep can use it as a house.
(b) It can be used for a chair as well.
(c) It is very elaborate and encrusted with jewels.
(d) The box can be used to ship wool.

4. Why is the flower not afraid of large animals?
(a) She believes her claws, her thorns, will protect her.
(b) She doesn't think there are any large animals on the planet.
(c) She is overconfident and not very realistic about life.
(d) She has the power of speech and will talk them out of harming her.

5. The pilot (as a child) drew an animal eating another animal. What was being eaten?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) A rat.
(c) An elephant.
(d) A zebra.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the king of the first asteroid planet the prince visits believe he rules over?

2. How far are the pilot and the little prince from civilization in Chapter II?

3. Why does the laughter of the little prince annoy the pilot so much?

4. How big is the little prince's planet, as described in Chapter IV?

5. When he begins having problems with his flower, the prince makes a very big decision. What is it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the airplane symbolize?

2. What is the symbolism of the little prince not pulling out the newly sprouted seed which he does not recognize?

3. Is the tippler different than the other types? The others are all behaving a certain way but the tippler is escaping from himself by drinking. Why is he included?

4. Why do the inhabitants of these six asteroids have no given names? Why are they "types"?

5. What does the little prince never let go of once it has been asked?

6. In a fable everything is symbolic. What is the symbolism of the desert as the central place in the story?

7. Why doesn't the little prince answer questions that the pilot asks?

8. Why is the drawing of the baobab so detailed?

9. Why is the little prince so fond of sunsets?

10. The narrator observes that adults are mostly interested in different things than children are drawn to. What are some of the things the narrator notes about the interests of adults vs. the interests of children?

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