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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When he emerges from the desert, where does the little prince go?
(a) He gets a ride in the pilot's airplane.
(b) He opes to find water in the nearest town.
(c) He climbs a high mountain.
(d) He sits down and has a little rest.

2. 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?
(a) The little prince is actually a lost child from a nearby village.
(b) The little prince is afraid that his flower will be eaten by the sheep.
(c) The little prince is the spirit of the desert.
(d) The little prince is afraid that he will die of thirst.

3. Why does the little prince think he can watch a sunset anytime?
(a) He lives in a world of wishing.
(b) Because on his small planet, he can.
(c) He is a demanding person.
(d) He thinks he can command the sunset to appear.

4. How big is the little prince's planet, as described in Chapter IV?
(a) Very hot from all the lava flowing over it.
(b) Scarcely any larger than a house.
(c) Wide and flat, like a giant frisbee.
(d) Newly formed from a black hole.

5. What sound does the well in the desert make?
(a) It creaks, like the hinge of a door that has never been oiled.
(b) It moans, like an old weathervane which the wind has long since forgotten.
(c) It cries, like a child who is afraid.
(d) It sings, like the song of the lark at break of day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the fox want to be tamed?

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

3. What is the setting in which the pilot and little prince meet?

4. On the little prince's planet, who would speak first, himself or his flower?

5. There would be two lamplighters who would be able to rest for most of the year. Where do they live?

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