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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was the narrator of this book when he gave up his magnificent painting career?
(a) He never gave it up.
(b) Ninety nine years old.
(c) Six years old.
(d) Fifty years old.

2. What does the little prince ask the king of the first asteroid planet the prince visits to do for him?
(a) Order a drink of water.
(b) Order a sunset.
(c) Give him a golden crown.
(d) Summon the answer to life's meaning.

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

4. When he begins having problems with his flower, the prince makes a very big decision. What is it?
(a) To dig a well.
(b) To learn to fly a plane.
(c) To build a small home.
(d) To leave his planet.

5. When the little prince decides to leave the king of the first asteroid planet the prince visits, what does the king do?
(a) Orders the prince to be his friend.
(b) Orders the prince to stay and become his cook.
(c) Orders the prince to be his ambassador.
(d) Orders the prince to spend life in prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting in which the pilot and little prince meet?

2. When the flower realizes the little prince is leaving, what does she ask for?

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

4. How many petals do the ordinary flowers on the prince's planet have?

5. What does the little prince do so that he can see the maximum number of sunsets on his planet?

Short Essay Questions

1. The narrator of the book is introduced in Chapter 1. He is not an anonymous narrator but a character in the story. What does the first chapter reveal about him?

2. The narrator observes that adults are mostly interested in different things than children are drawn to. What are some of the things the narrator notes about the interests of adults vs. the interests of children?

3. What is the meaning of the title The Little Prince?

4. Why do the inhabitants of these six asteroids have no given names? Why are they "types"?

5. Again, readers see the use of light by the author in setting the tone of Chapter VII. When the little prince is choked by sobbing, what is happening to the light?

6. The asteroid that the little prince lives on was seen by whom?

7. Is the tippler different than the other types? The others are all behaving a certain way but the tippler is escaping from himself by drinking. Why is he included?

8. What does the airplane symbolize?

9. Why are the chapters of this book so short?

10. In Chapter V, the little prince reveals what problem he is facing on his home planet. What is it?

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