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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the plane crashes in Chapter II, how many people are in it?
(a) No one is in the plane.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Just one.
(d) A large family of forty five.

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

3. After the plane crash, what does the pilot do?
(a) Lays down and gives up.
(b) Starts to fix the engine of the plane.
(c) Draws pictures of what he sees.
(d) Runs and runs trying to find help.

4. On his planet what does the little prince heat his breakfast on?
(a) The heat of the nearby sun.
(b) He eats his breakfast cold.
(c) Either one of his two active volcanoes.
(d) A large cookstove.

5. How big is the little prince's planet, as described in Chapter IV?
(a) Wide and flat, like a giant frisbee.
(b) Newly formed from a black hole.
(c) Scarcely any larger than a house.
(d) Very hot from all the lava flowing over it.

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

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

8. 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 prince never stops laughing.
(d) The pilot likes his misfortunes to be taken seriously.

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

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

11. There is one drawing in Chapter V that the pilot is very proud of. Which one is it?
(a) A landscape of the desert.
(b) A family eating dinner on a boat.
(c) A great canyon with a river snaking through it.
(d) A planet with three baobabs on it.

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

13. What did the child ask the adults when he showed them the picture?
(a) Where should I hang this picture?
(b) Do you know what this is?
(c) Does this picture frighten you?
(d) What is happening in this drawing?

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the pilot get so cross with the little prince in Chapter II?

2. What does the prince's flower have a horror of?

3. What does the narrator think of adults?

4. According to the pilot in Chapter IV, what are grownups mostly interested in?

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

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