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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What sound does the well in the desert make?
2. Where must the snake bite the little prince?
3. Of all the people the little prince meets on the asteroids, he only likes one. Which one does he think he could be friends with?
4. What color is the muffler which the little prince wears around his neck?
5. What is the job of the railway switchman?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the lamplighter representative of?
2. The flower with only three petals, who lives in the midst of a vast desert, believes that there are only six or seven men in the world. What does she represent in the story?
3. As the little prince faces his appointment with the snake, what is he feeling?
4. What gives the desert its ridges of sand shining in the moonlight - its beauty?
5. Why is the little prince overcome with sadness as he stands in the entrance to the grand rose garden?
6. What is the difference between the adult and child, the pilot and little prince, in terms of their reaction to the golden snake?
7. What does the little prince face on earth?
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. When the end is near, the pilot has no more water to drink and the little prince has found what he was looking for, a remarkable thing happens. What is different about the search for the well? What happens on this stage of the journey that is new?
10. The switchman is a person whose actions do have consequences. In that way he is different from the other adult archetypes. How is he similar?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Both the pilot and the little prince drink from the well but they are drinking to quench different thirsts. For the pilot, his life depends upon finding some drinking water. Without it he will die of thirst. What is the little prince seeking? What does he need from the well?
Essay Topic 2
A major theme of this book is friendship. The fox uses the term "tame" to describe being tied to another person or creature. What is the process of taming and how is this theme woven through the book?
Essay Topic 3
In The Little Prince none of the characters are given regular names. They are all identified by a title. This is a very common practice in fables. Why is a fable about types of characters and not specific individuals?
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