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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the tippler represent in the story?
2. How big is the little prince's planet, as described in Chapter IV?
3. Why is the flower not afraid of large animals?
4. Why does the little prince think he can watch a sunset anytime?
5. What does the discoverer of the little prince's planet do in order to be taken seriously?
Short Essay Questions
1. This book was written in French. What are some of the challenge of translating a book from one language into the next?
2. What does the little prince's flower represent in this fable?
3. Why does the narrator keep showing his drawing to adults throughout his life?
4. Again, readers see the use of light by the author in setting the tone of Chapter VII. When the little prince is choked by sobbing, what is happening to the light?
5. In a fable everything is symbolic. What is the symbolism of the desert as the central place in the story?
6. The narrator of the book is introduced in Chapter 1. He is not an anonymous narrator but a character in the story. What does the first chapter reveal about him?
7. In Chapter VII, the pilot says "the secret of the little prince's life was revealed to me." What is that secret?
8. Why do the inhabitants of these six asteroids have no given names? Why are they "types"?
9. The little prince wants to help the tippler. Why is he unable to help?
10. What is the meaning of the title The Little Prince?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The ending of the book is very mysterious. What happened with the snake? Did the little prince return to his planet? How? Did the little prince die? Did the little prince get his sheep to eat the baobabs? Did the flower live? Did the sheep eat the flower?
Why has the author left so much mystery at the end of the book for us to dwell on? How does this fit in with the theme of learning to love ephemeral things?
Essay Topic 2
In The Little Prince none of the characters are given regular names. They are all identified by a title. This is a very common practice in fables. Why is a fable about types of characters and not specific individuals?
Essay Topic 3
In the book's dedication the author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, dedicates the book to his friend Leon Werth. Then the author changes the dedication slightly. How does he change the dedication and how does that change tie in with the theme of the book?
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