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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XXI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is on the lamplighter's planet?
(a) A snake who provides light.
(b) A street lamp and a lamp lighter.
(c) A lion and his pride and a lamplighter.
(d) A businessman and his dog who lights lamps.

2. The lamplighter says a day on his planet is how long?
(a) A hundred years.
(b) One minute.
(c) One year.
(d) One day.

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

4. 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 he will die of thirst.
(b) The little prince is actually a lost child from a nearby village.
(c) The little prince is the spirit of the desert.
(d) The little prince is afraid that his flower will be eaten by the sheep.

5. What is the pilot working on that he thinks will help him get out of the desert?
(a) A map showing the way out of the desert.
(b) Making paper airplanes.
(c) The engine of his plane.
(d) A book about geography.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the lamplighter's planet, how many strides does it take to circle the planet?

2. What does the little prince tell the fox he is looking for?

3. How does the fox define the word "tame"?

4. Why does the fox want to be tamed?

5. Why does the little prince become enraged at the pilot in Chapter VII?

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