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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The lamplighter says a day on his planet is how long?
(a) One year.
(b) One day.
(c) A hundred years.
(d) One minute.
2. What word is used to describe the great pageant of the lamplighters around the world, taking turns to bring light into the darkness?
(a) Boring.
(b) Magnificent.
(c) Idiotic.
(d) Complicated.
3. What does the first creature the prince meets on earth offer the little prince?
(a) To send him back from whence he came.
(b) To teach him all about the earth and its people.
(c) To teach him the difference between good and evil.
(d) To guide him out of the desert.
4. What is the selling point which the pill merchant offers the little prince?
(a) Everyone is using these pills.
(b) The pills save a tremendous amount of time.
(c) The pills are cost effective.
(d) The pills are necessary for a high quality of life.
5. How many people, approximately, does the narrator say live on the earth?
(a) Too many to count.
(b) 2,000,000,000.
(c) 462,511.
(d) Only one. The pilot.
6. How much time per week can a person save by taking the thirst quenching pills?
(a) Five minutes every hour.
(b) One week per month is saved.
(c) A day and a half each week.
(d) Fifty-three minutes each week.
7. Where does the geographer advise the little prince to visit next?
(a) Go back to the lamplighter and learn from him.
(b) Go to the rings of Saturn and visit the third moon.
(c) Go home and take care of the flower.
(d) Earth, because it has a good reputation.
8. When the little prince arrives on the earth, why doesn't he see any people?
(a) He falls into the ocean and almost drowns.
(b) Everyone is asleep. It is night.
(c) He lands in the Sahara desert.
(d) He isn't looking for them.
9. How many men does the flower think there are on earth?
(a) Three billion.
(b) Six or seven.
(c) Perhaps 10,000 or more. She is not sure.
(d) Only the pilot.
10. Who is dying of thirst in the desert?
(a) Neither are dying of thirst. They are only panicking. It is not really a problem.
(b) The little prince is smaller and more susceptible to dying of thirst.
(c) The pilot is dying of thirst. The little prince is not human and does not need water.
(d) Both the pilot and the little prince. The pilot's thirst is physical ,and the little prince needs spiritual awakening.
11. How would the geographer be best described?
(a) A scholar who knows the location of all the seas, rivers, towns, mountains, and deserts.
(b) A brave man who has battled his way through jungles and deserts.
(c) An intelligent man who knows how to write books.
(d) A man who has explored the whole galaxy.
12. What does the little prince believe that the desert hides?
(a) A well.
(b) The secret of eternal youth.
(c) A home for the ages.
(d) Snakes that can kill.
13. How many kings are on earth, according to the pilot?
(a) Too many.
(b) Thousands upon thousands.
(c) 111.
(d) 16.
14. Who drinks from the well first?
(a) The pilot, he is near death.
(b) The water is not real. Neither of them drink.
(c) The litle prince. This is the water he was thirsty for.
(d) They drink together, they are so thirsty they cannot wait.
15. What is the first creature the little prince meets on earth?
(a) The businessman.
(b) The golden snake.
(c) The pilot.
(d) His own shadow self.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the army of lamplighters on earth compared to?
2. What does the little prince think is so odd about the geographer?
3. What is on the lamplighter's planet?
4. On the lamplighter's planet, how many strides does it take to circle the planet?
5. The little prince discovers a rose garden. What is it about this rose garden that makes him so sad?
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