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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the businessman doing when the prince first comes across him?
(a) Reading the newspaper.
(b) Counting the stars.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) Watching television.

2. What is the subject of the drawing in Chapter I?
(a) A little planet.
(b) A rose.
(c) A boa constrictor.
(d) Two volcanos.

3. How many drawings did the child make?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) None.
(c) One Hundred.
(d) Two.

4. What does the prince do for the flower?
(a) Takes photographs of her.
(b) Waters her, puts a screen by her in the day and a glass globe over her at night.
(c) Reads her poetry.
(d) Nothing, she takes care of herself.

5. How does the little prince reveal that he might be from another planet?
(a) He asks the pilot, "Which is your planet?"
(b) He asks, "May I be taken to the queen?"
(c) He asks, "What lives beyond the sands?"
(d) He asks, "Why is the sky blue?"

6. What is the little prince feeling much of the time?
(a) The little prince often feels sad.
(b) The little prince is always happy and cheerful.
(c) The little prince is incapable of feeling, that is the problem.
(d) The little prince feels nothing. He is numb.

7. What does the conceited man use his hat for?
(a) To make people laugh at him.
(b) To salute.
(c) To keep the rain off his face.
(d) To shield him from the burning sun.

8. The pilot reveals that after he becomes friends with the little prince he starts doing something again. What is it?
(a) Drawing.
(b) Biting his nails.
(c) Worrying about everything.
(d) Procrastinating.

9. What did the child ask the adults when he showed them the picture?
(a) Does this picture frighten you?
(b) What is happening in this drawing?
(c) Where should I hang this picture?
(d) Do you know what this is?

10. On his planet what does the little prince heat his breakfast on?
(a) Either one of his two active volcanoes.
(b) The heat of the nearby sun.
(c) He eats his breakfast cold.
(d) A large cookstove.

11. How small is the planet where the prince comes from, as described in Chapter III?
(a) Microscopic in size.
(b) About the size of Venus.
(c) Bigger than the moon, but smaller than the sun.
(d) So small a sheep doesn't need to be tied up.

12. There is one drawing in Chapter V that the pilot is very proud of. Which one is it?
(a) A planet with three baobabs on it.
(b) A family eating dinner on a boat.
(c) A great canyon with a river snaking through it.
(d) A landscape of the desert.

13. What should a person who flies planes study, according to the narrator?
(a) Art.
(b) How to fall.
(c) Fingerpainting.
(d) Geography.

14. What does the conceited man want?
(a) To be admired.
(b) Money.
(c) Something to eat.
(d) A hat.

15. How many people live on the conceited man's planet?
(a) All the conceited people in the universe live there.
(b) Only one.
(c) Seventy Seven and a half.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the soil of the little prince's planet infested with?

2. The pilot gives the little prince something that the little prince greatly treasures and which he keeps it in his pocket. What is it?

3. When he begins having problems with his flower, the prince makes a very big decision. What is it?

4. What does the conceited man ask the little prince to do?

5. How old was the narrator of this book when he gave up his magnificent painting career?

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