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

2. How many petals do the ordinary flowers on the prince's planet have?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Three hundred.
(d) None, they are spikes.

3. Who is the narrator of The Little Prince?
(a) The pilot.
(b) The snake.
(c) The little prince.
(d) The boa constrictor.

4. What does the conceited man ask the little prince to do?
(a) Make supper.
(b) Clap his hands.
(c) Count the stars.
(d) Do cartwheels.

5. 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.

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

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

8. What is the subject of the drawing in Chapter I?
(a) A little planet.
(b) Two volcanos.
(c) A rose.
(d) A boa constrictor.

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

10. 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?
(a) Because the flower wants to become acquainted with the butterflies.
(b) The flowers wants to make him feel guilty for leaving.
(c) The flower is too vain to be covered up.
(d) Because the flower no longer wants to live and hopes something would soon eat her.

11. The morning after the plane crash, when the narrator wakes up, who is standing there?
(a) His long lost cousin.
(b) An angel.
(c) A flock of sheep.
(d) The little prince.

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

13. Why does the pilot get so cross with the little prince in Chapter II?
(a) The little prince keeps running off.
(b) The little prince won't get the pilot a glass of water.
(c) The pilot is trying to fix his engine and the little prince keeps asking him about inconsequential things.
(d) The little prince is very lazy and sleeps all day.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the little prince feeling much of the time?

4. How is a drawing of a sheep different from a drawing of a ram?

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

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