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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How many people were on the plane when it crashes?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) All the people who were on the plane.
(d) Only one.

5. When the pilot and the little prince first meet, what time of day is it?
(a) Sunrise.
(b) It was too foggy to tell.
(c) High noon.
(d) Deepest midnight.

6. What does the little prince point out to the businessman when he first meets him?
(a) "You've dropped a couple of coins on your foot."
(b) "Your cigarette has gone out."
(c) "You are very good at counting. Bravo!"
(d) "You are a silly man."

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

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

9. 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 is very bad at counting.
(c) That the businessman loses everything all the time.
(d) That the businessman is of no use to the things he owns.

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

11. What is another word that the translator might have used instead of tippler?
(a) Jolly Fellow.
(b) Antique collector.
(c) Big Tipper.
(d) Boozer or lush.

12. What is the little prince's plan to safeguard his planet from baobabs?
(a) To lasso his planet and bring it closer to earth.
(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 bring sheep to his planet, so they can eat young baobab bushes.

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

14. Why is the flower not afraid of large animals?
(a) She has the power of speech and will talk them out of harming her.
(b) She is overconfident and not very realistic about life.
(c) She doesn't think there are any large animals on the planet.
(d) She believes her claws, her thorns, will protect her.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The prince's flower has a personality. She is ...

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

4. According to the author, what time is it in the United States when the sun is setting over France?

5. What does the little prince tell the businessman that he owns?

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