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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. What is the pilot asked to draw by the little prince?
(a) The plane crash.
(b) A sheep.
(c) A box.
(d) A portrait of the little prince.

5. What does the king of the first asteroid planet the prince visits believe he rules over?
(a) The prince.
(b) Everything.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Himself.

6. When the little prince sees the airplane for the first time what does he say?
(a) He asks for a ride.
(b) He asks if he can fly it.
(c) He asks what that object is.
(d) He asks when happened to the airplane.

7. How many asteroid planets does the little prince visit in total?
(a) Too many to count.
(b) Six.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Two.

8. 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 the spirit of the desert.
(c) The little prince is afraid that his flower will be eaten by the sheep.
(d) The little prince is afraid that he will die of thirst.

9. What was the soil of the little prince's planet infested with?
(a) Terrible invisible seeds.
(b) Toxic waste.
(c) Twisting, writhing snakes.
(d) Fire ants.

10. 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) A star chart.
(b) A magic wand.
(c) The pilot's drawing of a sheep in a box with air holes.
(d) A glass of water.

11. 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) Newly formed from a black hole.
(d) Wide and flat, like a giant frisbee.

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

13. Why does the little prince weed his planet every morning?
(a) He is a workaholic.
(b) He likes playing in the dirt.
(c) It is the law on his world that everyone weed each morning.
(d) To keep the dangerous plants from taking root.

14. Why does the laughter of the little prince annoy the pilot so much?
(a) The pilot has no sense of humor.
(b) The prince has a very loud obnoxious laugh.
(c) The pilot likes his misfortunes to be taken seriously.
(d) The prince never stops laughing.

15. According to the pilot in Chapter IV, what are grownups mostly interested in?
(a) Things that can be counted, like money and years of age.
(b) Controlling everyone all the time.
(c) Butterflies and feelings.
(d) They are no longer interested in anything.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Where does the plane crash happen?

5. The morning after the plane crash, when the narrator wakes up, who is standing there?

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