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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Night falls and the pilot and little prince are walking in the dark. What do they think of the desert in the moonlight?
(a) The desert is beautiful.
(b) The desert is a good place to die.
(c) The desert is like the stars, full of pieces that cannot be understood.
(d) There is no hope in the desert, all is lost.

2. Who is the scholar that discovers the little prince's planet?
(a) The International Astronomical Observer.
(b) The pilot's father, who is an astronaut.
(c) A Turkish astronomer who sees it only once through his telescope.
(d) A flock of geese living in an observatory.

3. If all humanity were to stand upright and crowd together how much space would they take up, according to Chapter XVII?
(a) They would fill all of Africa and Asia.
(b) The state of Texas.
(c) One public square twenty miles long and twenty miles wide.
(d) They could be placed in the branches of one baobab tree.

4. What does the little prince tell the businessman that he owns?
(a) A flower and three volcanoes.
(b) A thousand planets.
(c) A knowledge of the stars.
(d) Time.

5. According to the switchman, what are the adults in the trains pursuing?
(a) Each other.
(b) Money and fame.
(c) Nothing at all.
(d) Getting to their destination first.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the little prince love to watch?

2. What sound does the well in the desert make?

3. What does the little prince know about the pilot's engine in Chapter XXVI?

4. How many roses are in the garden that the little prince discovers?

5. What does the narrator think of adults?

(see the answer key)

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