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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the little prince point out to the businessman when he first meets him?
(a) "You are a silly man."
(b) "Your cigarette has gone out."
(c) "You are very good at counting. Bravo!"
(d) "You've dropped a couple of coins on your foot."

2. Why does the little prince weed his planet every morning?
(a) It is the law on his world that everyone weed each morning.
(b) He is a workaholic.
(c) To keep the dangerous plants from taking root.
(d) He likes playing in the dirt.

3. The little prince is proud of his flower. What is the pilot proud of?
(a) The fact that he can fly an airplane.
(b) Nothing. The pilot has no pride.
(c) The pilot is proud of his heritage.
(d) The pilot is proud of his fancy flying suit.

4. What does the little prince do so that he can see the maximum number of sunsets on his planet?
(a) He stands on his head and then sits down again.
(b) He closes his eyes for ten seconds.
(c) He moves his chair a few steps.
(d) He runs around the planet very fast before the sun sets again.

5. On the first asteroid planet he visits, why can't the prince sit down?
(a) The king forbids it.
(b) There are no chairs.
(c) He is afraid he will fall asleep and stay there forever.
(d) The king's ermine robe is covering the entire planet.

6. In the first line of Chapter I, the narrator mentions a book he once saw. What was the name of that book?
(a) The Royal Line of Transylvania.
(b) Kings and Queens of the Middle Ages.
(c) True Stories from Nature.
(d) Once more into the Breach.

7. Why does the pilot decide not to draw his airplane in the book?
(a) It is much too complicated.
(b) It is invisible and has no shape.
(c) It is a secret design.
(d) He has no pencil.

8. What does the narrator think of adults?
(a) They are too tall.
(b) They wear nice neckties.
(c) They don't have much imagination.
(d) They are mean.

9. What name does a human scholar give little prince's planet?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Astroid B-612.
(c) Little Kingdom of Rose.
(d) The Star that is Beyond.

10. What is the little prince's plan to safeguard his planet from baobabs?
(a) To plant a great garden which would feed all his people.
(b) To clone himself and colonize other planets across the galaxy.
(c) To lasso his planet and bring it closer to earth.
(d) To bring sheep to his planet, so they can eat young baobab bushes.

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

12. What does the tippler represent in the story?
(a) People who collect bottles.
(b) People who use alcohol or other substances to cover up their problems.
(c) A fun guy who just wants to laugh.
(d) People who like wine.

13. How many petals do the ordinary flowers on the prince's planet have?
(a) None, they are spikes.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Three hundred.

14. Who is the scholar that discovers the little prince's planet?
(a) A Turkish astronomer who sees it only once through his telescope.
(b) The pilot's father, who is an astronaut.
(c) A flock of geese living in an observatory.
(d) The International Astronomical Observer.

15. What does the conceited man ask the little prince to do?
(a) Do cartwheels.
(b) Make supper.
(c) Clap his hands.
(d) Count the stars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the conceited man want to be admired as?

2. What does the king of the first asteroid planet the prince visits call the prince?

3. In Chapter III, what does the little prince like about the box that the pilot has drawn?

4. When the little prince leaves his planet, he says goodbye to the flower and goes to put her glass globe on. Why does she say she doesn't need the protection any more?

5. The visit to the planet of the tippler plunged the little prince into what?

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