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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XXIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the allegorical character of the pill merchant represent?
(a) People who sell us things we don't need.
(b) The physician and his team of nurses.
(c) Wall street brokers.
(d) The pharmaceutical industry.

2. 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?
(a) The king.
(b) The businessman.
(c) None of them. He hates them all.
(d) The lamplighter.

3. The visit to the planet of the tippler plunged the little prince into what?
(a) Deep dejection.
(b) A big vat of beer.
(c) A happy, but content time of his life.
(d) Intense study of wine and how it is made.

4. How many men does the flower think there are on earth?
(a) Three billion.
(b) Only the pilot.
(c) Six or seven.
(d) Perhaps 10,000 or more. She is not sure.

5. What was the soil of the little prince's planet infested with?
(a) Twisting, writhing snakes.
(b) Toxic waste.
(c) Terrible invisible seeds.
(d) Fire ants.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the little prince sees the airplane for the first time what does he say?

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

3. Why does the little prince laugh at the notion of the airplane falling from the sky?

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

5. Who says, "Where I live everything is very small"?

(see the answer key)

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