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

2. What is the first creature the little prince meets on earth?
(a) The businessman.
(b) His own shadow self.
(c) The pilot.
(d) The golden snake.

3. In the rose garden, the little prince has to face a difficult fact about himself. What is it?
(a) That the things he thought were so rare and valuable are quite common and small.
(b) That he made a terrible mistake by leaving his planet.
(c) That he will never be able to love his flower as he wants to.
(d) That he doesn't care much about his life.

4. What does the little prince tell the fox he is looking for?
(a) A way to escape his responsibilities.
(b) Answers to life's questions.
(c) A way to go back home.
(d) Friends.

5. What does the first creature the prince meets on earth offer the little prince?
(a) To teach him the difference between good and evil.
(b) To guide him out of the desert.
(c) To teach him all about the earth and its people.
(d) To send him back from whence he came.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The lamplighter says a day on his planet is how long?

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

4. What structure is near the well?

5. How many men does the flower think there are on earth?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the significance of the mountains in Chapter XIX being so very tall?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. The little prince does not have the kind of thirst which the pilot has; what kind of thirst does the little prince have?

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

7. The little prince has learned that what is essential is invisible. How does he apply this to the mad scene of trains rushing this way and that?

8. What does the little prince face on earth?

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

10. What is the difference between the adult and child, the pilot and little prince, in terms of their reaction to the golden snake?

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