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

2. What is the selling point which the pill merchant offers the little prince?
(a) The pills save a tremendous amount of time.
(b) The pills are necessary for a high quality of life.
(c) Everyone is using these pills.
(d) The pills are cost effective.

3. What is unique about the fifth planet, the lamplighter's planet?
(a) It is the smallest.
(b) It is spinning at an incredible rate.
(c) It is made of soft rubber.
(d) There are so many people running around and singing.

4. What sound does the well in the desert make?
(a) It sings, like the song of the lark at break of day.
(b) It creaks, like the hinge of a door that has never been oiled.
(c) It cries, like a child who is afraid.
(d) It moans, like an old weathervane which the wind has long since forgotten.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the lamplighter love to do most, which he is never able to do?

3. How does the geographer define ephemeral?

4. Where must the snake bite the little prince?

5. What word is used to describe the great pageant of the lamplighters around the world, taking turns to bring light into the darkness?

Short Essay Questions

1. After visiting the six asteroids, the little prince has learned many things. In his last visit he seems to have regret that he has left his ephemeral flower all alone. Why doesn't he return? Why does he continue his journey?

2. Why is the little prince overcome with sadness as he stands in the entrance to the grand rose garden?

3. What does the little prince face on earth?

4. How is the flower in the desert like the flower back on the little prince's planet?

5. How is the shift of perception, the growth and movement of the protagonist, set in to motion in the chapter where the little prince discovers the rose garden?

6. The image of a fox is absolutely classic in fable and myth. What does the fox represent?

7. The little prince has learned that what is essential is invisible. How does he apply this to the mad scene of trains rushing this way and that?

8. One of the major themes of the book is child vs. adult. What in the description of the earth sets the stage for this tension?

9. What is the significance of the mountains in Chapter XIX being so very tall?

10. What gives the desert its ridges of sand shining in the moonlight - its beauty?

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