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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. According to the pilot in Chapter IV, what are grownups mostly interested in?
(a) Controlling everyone all the time.
(b) Butterflies and feelings.
(c) They are no longer interested in anything.
(d) Things that can be counted, like money and years of age.

2. How far are the pilot and the little prince from civilization in Chapter II?
(a) A hundred light years.
(b) Just around the corner.
(c) A thousand miles.
(d) A leap and a hop.

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

4. The pilot has to make quite a few drawings before the little prince is satisfied. What picture satisfies him?
(a) The sky at dawn.
(b) The box with air holes.
(c) A wild ram eating pears.
(d) Three horses running through a stream.

5. When the pilot and the little prince first meet, what time of day is it?
(a) High noon.
(b) Deepest midnight.
(c) Sunrise.
(d) It was too foggy to tell.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the little prince willing to applaud the conceited man?

2. Why does the little prince think he can watch a sunset anytime?

3. How small is the planet where the prince comes from, as described in Chapter III?

4. In the desert, what is the pilot's primary worry?

5. What does the little prince tell the businessman that he owns?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is of great consequence to the businessman, and what is of great consequence to the little prince?

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

4. Why is the drawing of the baobab so detailed?

5. In a fable everything is symbolic. What is the symbolism of the desert as the central place in the story?

6. The author uses light throughout the book to evoke an emotional tone. What does the sunset evoke?

7. Why is the little prince bored on the planet of the king?

8. Why does the author of The Little Prince begin this book with a drawing?

9. 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?

10. What is symbolic about the pilot making drawings in Chapter II?

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