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

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

3. What does the little prince ask about the poison which the snake has within it?
(a) How many times will you have to bite me before your poison works?
(b) Is your poison powerful enough to make me fly?
(c) You have good poison? You are sure it will not make me suffer long?
(d) Do you promise not to poison the pilot?

4. How does the fox define the word "tame"?
(a) It means to be nice.
(b) It means to break someone down.
(c) It means to establish ties.
(d) It means to eliminate all resistance.

5. What do the flowers in the rose garden remind him of?
(a) They remind him of his mother and how much she loved roses.
(b) They remind him that all flowers are silly and to be avoided.
(c) They remind him that he is afraid of thorns.
(d) They all look like his flower.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of all the people the little prince meets on the asteroids, he only likes one. Which one does he think he could be friends with?

2. What is on the lamplighter's planet?

3. When the pilot sees the snake in Chapter XXVI, what does he do?

4. After arriving on the earth and meeting his first earth creature, what does the little prince do?

5. How many people, approximately, does the narrator say live on the earth?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How is the shift of perception, the growth and movement of the protagonist, set in to motion in the chapter where the little prince discovers the rose garden?

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. After visiting the six asteroids, the little prince has learned many things. In his last visit he seems to have regret that he has left his ephemeral flower all alone. Why doesn't he return? Why does he continue his journey?

8. Water is used as a metaphor for life giving wisdom. What then is the critique that the author is making about modern day society in the story about the merchant who sells thirst-quenching pills?

9. For the geographer, what is of consequence?

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

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