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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the railway switchmen think of children?
(a) Children should not bother busy switchmen while they are working.
(b) Children should become adults as soon as possible.
(c) Only children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes. They are lucky.
(d) Children waste too much time.

2. What is the job of the railway switchman?
(a) To make order of chaos.
(b) To give orders and have them obeyed.
(c) To sort out travelers, in bundles of a thousand.
(d) To ride trains all day and all night.

3. If all humanity were to stand upright and crowd together how much space would they take up, according to Chapter XVII?
(a) The state of Texas.
(b) One public square twenty miles long and twenty miles wide.
(c) They could be placed in the branches of one baobab tree.
(d) They would fill all of Africa and Asia.

4. What color is the muffler which the little prince wears around his neck?
(a) The color of his flower.
(b) White as snow.
(c) Black as night.
(d) Golden.

5. How does the fox define the word "tame"?
(a) It means to break someone down.
(b) It means to establish ties.
(c) It means to be nice.
(d) It means to eliminate all resistance.

6. Is the little prince interested in buying the pills?
(a) Yes. He thinks they will be a good investment and produce income.
(b) Yes. He thinks his flower will enjoy not having to be watered.
(c) No. He would rather use the time to walk towards a spring of fresh water.
(d) Yes. He is taking them with him as he goes back to the desert.

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

8. What does the little prince believe that the desert hides?
(a) The secret of eternal youth.
(b) A home for the ages.
(c) Snakes that can kill.
(d) A well.

9. What does the little prince hope to see from the high peak in Chapter XIX?
(a) "The way to go home..."
(b) "The whole planet at one glance and all the people..."
(c) "The wide range of the galaxy and its inhabitants..."
(d) "The range of choices available to me..."

10. How does the author use light imagery in the chapter about trains?
(a) The trains are lit from the inside with lamplight.
(b) The trains can operate in the dark as well as the light.
(c) The trains are brilliantly lit as they thunder by.
(d) The trains create sparks on the tracks that light up the night.

11. How many kings are on earth, according to the pilot?
(a) Too many.
(b) 16.
(c) Thousands upon thousands.
(d) 111.

12. How much time per week can a person save by taking the thirst quenching pills?
(a) Fifty-three minutes each week.
(b) One week per month is saved.
(c) Five minutes every hour.
(d) A day and a half each week.

13. In the rose garden, the little prince has to face a difficult fact about himself. What is it?
(a) That he doesn't care much about his life.
(b) That he will never be able to love his flower as he wants to.
(c) That the things he thought were so rare and valuable are quite common and small.
(d) That he made a terrible mistake by leaving his planet.

14. What does the first creature the prince meets on earth say he is more powerful than?
(a) The finger of a king.
(b) The truth.
(c) The thundering elephant.
(d) The shining sun.

15. What does the little prince know about the pilot's engine in Chapter XXVI?
(a) That it is going to be a long time before it gets mended.
(b) That it will never run.
(c) That the snake has stolen the crucial parts.
(d) That the pilot has fixed it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the flower in the desert know of men?

2. How many people, approximately, does the narrator say live on the earth?

3. Who does the allegorical character of the pill merchant represent?

4. What does the little prince think is so odd about the geographer?

5. The little prince wants the fox to play with him. What does the fox say?

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