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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 is the businessman doing when the prince first comes across him?
(a) Dreaming.
(b) Watching television.
(c) Counting the stars.
(d) Reading the newspaper.

2. What is the pilot asked to draw by the little prince?
(a) The plane crash.
(b) A box.
(c) A portrait of the little prince.
(d) A sheep.

3. On the fifth day that the pilot and the little prince are together, the secret of the little prince's life is revealed. What is that secret?
(a) The little prince is afraid that his flower will be eaten by the sheep.
(b) The little prince is the spirit of the desert.
(c) The little prince is afraid that he will die of thirst.
(d) The little prince is actually a lost child from a nearby village.

4. In the desert, what is the pilot's primary worry?
(a) That he has very little drinking water left.
(b) That the prince is not trustworthy.
(c) That someone will steal his plane.
(d) That nightfall will never come.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the discoverer of the little prince's planet do in order to be taken seriously?

3. How is a drawing of a sheep different from a drawing of a ram?

4. Why is it hard to learn where the little prince came from?

5. What is the setting in which the pilot and little prince meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the little prince's flower represent in this fable?

3. The Little Prince is considered to be a fable. What does that mean?

4. Why are the chapters of this book so short?

5. In Chapter VII, the pilot says "the secret of the little prince's life was revealed to me." What is that secret?

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

7. What does the airplane symbolize?

8. This book was written in French. What are some of the challenge of translating a book from one language into the next?

9. What does the little prince learn from the conceited man?

10. What is symbolic about the pilot making drawings in Chapter II?

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