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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the army of lamplighters on earth compared to?
(a) Fireworks.
(b) The changing of the seasons.
(c) A ballet or opera.
(d) Clockwork.

3. What does Antoine de Saint-Exupery call The Land of Tears"?
(a) A no-man's land.
(b) A waste of time.
(c) A desert.
(d) A secret place.

4. How long is the little prince willing to applaud the conceited man?
(a) Five minutes.
(b) The little prince refuses to applaud him at all.
(c) Forty four claps.
(d) The rest of his lifetime.

5. What is the tippler ashamed of?
(a) The fact that he is bowlegged.
(b) His clothing.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Nothing. He is a happy fellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times in the 54 years the businessman has inhabited his planet has he been disturbed?

2. Why is the flower not afraid of large animals?

3. Who drinks from the well first?

4. How many times in one day does the sun set on the little prince's planet?

5. On the first asteroid planet he visits, why can't the prince sit down?

(see the answer key)

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