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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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."

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

3. The pilot (as a child) drew an animal eating another animal. What was being eaten?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) An elephant.
(c) A rat.
(d) A zebra.

4. The six-year-old child gave up being an artist and chose to become what?
(a) A pilot.
(b) A gardener.
(c) An engineer.
(d) A zoo keeper.

5. What word is used to describe the great pageant of the lamplighters around the world, taking turns to bring light into the darkness?
(a) Idiotic.
(b) Boring.
(c) Magnificent.
(d) Complicated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the flower in the desert think men are hard to find?

2. What should a person who flies planes study, according to the narrator?

3. How old was the narrator of this book when he gave up his magnificent painting career?

4. When the little prince decides to leave the king of the first asteroid planet the prince visits, what does the king do?

5. How does the little prince reveal that he might be from another planet?

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