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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the little prince do so that he can see the maximum number of sunsets on his planet?
(a) He moves his chair a few steps.
(b) He runs around the planet very fast before the sun sets again.
(c) He stands on his head and then sits down again.
(d) He closes his eyes for ten seconds.

2. What is the businessman doing when the prince first comes across him?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Reading the newspaper.
(c) Counting the stars.
(d) Dreaming.

3. Why does the little prince become enraged at the pilot in Chapter VII?
(a) Because the pilot won't go for a walk with him.
(b) Because the prince can't find his flower.
(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 share his water.

4. The little prince is not impressed with what the businessman owns. What reason does he give for his disdain?
(a) That the businessman is always falling asleep.
(b) That the businessman loses everything all the time.
(c) That the businessman is very bad at counting.
(d) That the businessman is of no use to the things he owns.

5. According to the author, what time is it in the United States when the sun is setting over France?
(a) It is the same time.
(b) Breakfast time.
(c) Noon.
(d) It is impossible to know.

6. How far are the pilot and the little prince from civilization in Chapter II?
(a) A hundred light years.
(b) A leap and a hop.
(c) Just around the corner.
(d) A thousand miles.

7. When the little prince decides to leave the king of the first asteroid planet the prince visits, what does the king do?
(a) Orders the prince to be his friend.
(b) Orders the prince to stay and become his cook.
(c) Orders the prince to be his ambassador.
(d) Orders the prince to spend life in prison.

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

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

10. On the first asteroid planet he visits, why can't the prince sit down?
(a) He is afraid he will fall asleep and stay there forever.
(b) There are no chairs.
(c) The king's ermine robe is covering the entire planet.
(d) The king forbids it.

11. What does the little prince ask the king of the first asteroid planet the prince visits to do for him?
(a) Summon the answer to life's meaning.
(b) Order a drink of water.
(c) Order a sunset.
(d) Give him a golden crown.

12. What does the discoverer of the little prince's planet do in order to be taken seriously?
(a) He demands that he be heard.
(b) He speaks slowly and clearly.
(c) He wears European clothing.
(d) He writes a scientifice treatise and gets it published.

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

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

15. How many drawings did the child make?
(a) Two.
(b) None.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) One Hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people live on the conceited man's planet?

2. What does the king of the first asteroid planet the prince visits call the prince?

3. When the little prince leaves his planet, he says goodbye to the flower and goes to put her glass globe on. Why does she say she doesn't need the protection any more?

4. The pilot gives the little prince something that the little prince greatly treasures and which he keeps it in his pocket. What is it?

5. What does the narrator think of adults?

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