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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times in one day does the sun set on the little prince's planet?
(a) 4 times.
(b) 400 times.
(c) 44 times.
(d) 40 times.

2. What does the little prince point out to the businessman when he first meets him?
(a) "You've dropped a couple of coins on your foot."
(b) "You are very good at counting. Bravo!"
(c) "You are a silly man."
(d) "Your cigarette has gone out."

3. What does the flower in the desert know of men?
(a) She knows everything about the world of men for she once lived in a great garden of roses.
(b) She is afraid to tell the little prince what she knows, so terrifying is her knowledge.
(c) She knows only what the snake has told her.
(d) She once saw a caravan passing. She believes they were the only men in existence.

4. How does the geographer define ephemeral?
(a) "In danger of speedy disappearance."
(b) "Hard to quantify."
(c) "Inside eternal beings."
(d) "In the area of fumeral springs."

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the first creature the prince meets on earth offer the little prince?

2. What does the conceited man want to be admired as?

3. On the fifth day that the pilot and the little prince are together, the secret of the little prince's life is revealed. What is that secret?

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

5. What does the businessman think he owns?

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