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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the desert, what is the pilot's primary worry?
(a) That he has very little drinking water left.
(b) That someone will steal his plane.
(c) That nightfall will never come.
(d) That the prince is not trustworthy.

2. What is the tippler doing?
(a) Drinking to cure his dehydration.
(b) Drinking to forget.
(c) Drinking to remember.
(d) Drinking to find the best wine.

3. Why does the little prince laugh at the notion of the airplane falling from the sky?
(a) Because he also fell from the sky. It is a great coincidence.
(b) Because he is thinking of something else.
(c) Because he is a very mean little boy.
(d) He is only laughing because he is very nervous.

4. What does the little prince love to watch?
(a) The sunset.
(b) A flower growing.
(c) Shooting stars.
(d) The sandstorm that is heading their way.

5. How small is the planet where the prince comes from, as described in Chapter III?
(a) Microscopic in size.
(b) About the size of Venus.
(c) Bigger than the moon, but smaller than the sun.
(d) So small a sheep doesn't need to be tied up.

6. What does the little prince call the red-faced gentleman who is the businessman?
(a) "He should be ashamed of himself!"
(b) "He clearly has high blood pressure and should soon explode!"
(c) "He is a terrible excuse for a human being!"
(d) "He is not a man--he is a mushroom!"

7. How does the little prince reveal that he might be from another planet?
(a) He asks the pilot, "Which is your planet?"
(b) He asks, "What lives beyond the sands?"
(c) He asks, "Why is the sky blue?"
(d) He asks, "May I be taken to the queen?"

8. What does the conceited man want to be admired as?
(a) The biggest clown of them all.
(b) The handsomest, the best dressed, the richest, and the most intelligent man on the planet.
(c) The most generous of all beings.
(d) The happiest soul lin the galaxy.

9. The pilot gives the little prince something that the little prince greatly treasures and which he keeps it in his pocket. What is it?
(a) The pilot's drawing of a sheep in a box with air holes.
(b) A glass of water.
(c) A magic wand.
(d) A star chart.

10. What is the little prince feeling much of the time?
(a) The little prince often feels sad.
(b) The little prince is incapable of feeling, that is the problem.
(c) The little prince is always happy and cheerful.
(d) The little prince feels nothing. He is numb.

11. Why does the little prince become enraged at the pilot in Chapter VII?
(a) Because the prince can't find his flower.
(b) Because the pilot won't share his water.
(c) Because the pilot doesn't consider the little prince's problem with his flower as a matter of consequence.
(d) Because the pilot won't go for a walk with him.

12. What did the adults think the child's drawing looked like?
(a) A frightening monster.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A tapeworm.
(d) A hat.

13. The pilot reveals that after he becomes friends with the little prince he starts doing something again. What is it?
(a) Worrying about everything.
(b) Procrastinating.
(c) Drawing.
(d) Biting his nails.

14. How many thorns does the prince's unique flower have?
(a) Almost a hundred thorns.
(b) Four thorns.
(c) None.
(d) One thorn.

15. What is the little prince's plan to safeguard his planet from baobabs?
(a) To bring sheep to his planet, so they can eat young baobab bushes.
(b) To plant a great garden which would feed all his people.
(c) To clone himself and colonize other planets across the galaxy.
(d) To lasso his planet and bring it closer to earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does a human scholar give little prince's planet?

2. When the plane crashes in Chapter II, how many people are in it?

3. What does the conceited man want?

4. In Chapter III, what does the little prince like about the box that the pilot has drawn?

5. Why does the pilot decide not to draw his airplane in the book?

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