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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. There would be two lamplighters who would be able to rest for most of the year. Where do they live?
(a) At the North and South pole.
(b) In Washington, D.C.
(c) On a small island out in the Pacific Ocean.
(d) Underground.

2. What does the little prince hope to see from the high peak in Chapter XIX?
(a) "The whole planet at one glance and all the people..."
(b) "The wide range of the galaxy and its inhabitants..."
(c) "The way to go home..."
(d) "The range of choices available to me..."

3. Why does the geographer refuse to record the little prince's flower?
(a) The geographer is allergic to flowers.
(b) The geographer says that a flower is ephemeral.
(c) The geographer doesn't know how to spell flower.
(d) The geographer doesn't like flowers.

4. Who is dying of thirst in the desert?
(a) Neither are dying of thirst. They are only panicking. It is not really a problem.
(b) The pilot is dying of thirst. The little prince is not human and does not need water.
(c) The little prince is smaller and more susceptible to dying of thirst.
(d) Both the pilot and the little prince. The pilot's thirst is physical ,and the little prince needs spiritual awakening.

5. What does the little prince think is so odd about the geographer?
(a) That he is blind.
(b) That he knows nothing of his own planet.
(c) That he eats only paper.
(d) That he is so wise and forgiving.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on the lamplighter's planet?

2. What moves the pilot so much about the little prince whom he carries in his arms across the dark desert?

3. In the rose garden, the little prince has to face a difficult fact about himself. What is it?

4. What is the army of lamplighters on earth compared to?

5. Why does the pilot think he is dreaming when he finds the well?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the little prince overcome with sadness as he stands in the entrance to the grand rose garden?

2. How does the shift of perception come to completion in the relationship between the fox and the little prince?

3. The flower with only three petals, who lives in the midst of a vast desert, believes that there are only six or seven men in the world. What does she represent in the story?

4. The switchman is a person whose actions do have consequences. In that way he is different from the other adult archetypes. How is he similar?

5. When the little prince arrives on earth he immediately meets the snake. The conversation with the snake foreshadows the end of the book. Explain the use of foreshadowing. What tension does the snake's presence create?

6. How is the flower in the desert like the flower back on the little prince's planet?

7. What is the little prince's mountaintop experience like and how does it change him?

8. As the little prince faces his appointment with the snake, what is he feeling?

9. Why does the little prince find the lamplighter less ridiculous than the other solo inhabitants?

10. What is the lamplighter representative of?

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