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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the muffler which the little prince wears around his neck?
(a) Black as night.
(b) The color of his flower.
(c) Golden.
(d) White as snow.

2. The little prince walks through sand, rock, and snow and at last comes to a road. Where does the road lead him?
(a) The abodes of men.
(b) Back to where he came from.
(c) To a small cafe, where he is able to get sustenance.
(d) An airport where he meets the pilot.

3. How much time per week can a person save by taking the thirst quenching pills?
(a) Five minutes every hour.
(b) Fifty-three minutes each week.
(c) A day and a half each week.
(d) One week per month is saved.

4. How many thirst-quenching pills would one need in order to feel full of liquid, according to Chapter XXIII?
(a) One pill an hour.
(b) One pill a week.
(c) Take two pills and call the doctor in the morning.
(d) Take two pills whenever you feel thirsty.

5. What is the selling point which the pill merchant offers the little prince?
(a) The pills are necessary for a high quality of life.
(b) The pills save a tremendous amount of time.
(c) The pills are cost effective.
(d) Everyone is using these pills.

6. What does the flower in the desert know of men?
(a) She knows everything about the world of men for she once lived in a great garden of roses.
(b) She once saw a caravan passing. She believes they were the only men in existence.
(c) She knows only what the snake has told her.
(d) She is afraid to tell the little prince what she knows, so terrifying is her knowledge.

7. On the lamplighter's planet, how many strides does it take to circle the planet?
(a) Forty four strides.
(b) One long stride and one short stride.
(c) None. It is a one-dimensional flat planet.
(d) Three strides.

8. Who is dying of thirst in the desert?
(a) The little prince is smaller and more susceptible to dying of thirst.
(b) The pilot is dying of thirst. The little prince is not human and does not need water.
(c) Both the pilot and the little prince. The pilot's thirst is physical ,and the little prince needs spiritual awakening.
(d) Neither are dying of thirst. They are only panicking. It is not really a problem.

9. How many flowers does the little prince meet in the desert?
(a) Hundreds. A vast garden of roses and lilacs.
(b) About 15. They are all fighting over water.
(c) Only one.
(d) On the baobab tree there were three lovely flowers.

10. What do the flowers in the rose garden remind him of?
(a) They all look like his flower.
(b) They remind him of his mother and how much she loved roses.
(c) They remind him that he is afraid of thorns.
(d) They remind him that all flowers are silly and to be avoided.

11. Night falls and the pilot and little prince are walking in the dark. What do they think of the desert in the moonlight?
(a) The desert is like the stars, full of pieces that cannot be understood.
(b) The desert is beautiful.
(c) The desert is a good place to die.
(d) There is no hope in the desert, all is lost.

12. The imagery of water is used in "The Little Prince" to represent the life-giving force, whether it is physical or spiritual. What then does this thirst-quenching pill represent?
(a) The way we falsely feed our thirst with things that do not give us life.
(b) Progress in problem solving.
(c) The great advances of technology.
(d) The power of science.

13. How many people, approximately, does the narrator say live on the earth?
(a) Only one. The pilot.
(b) Too many to count.
(c) 2,000,000,000.
(d) 462,511.

14. How does the geographer define ephemeral?
(a) "Hard to quantify."
(b) "In danger of speedy disappearance."
(c) "Inside eternal beings."
(d) "In the area of fumeral springs."

15. What is the first creature the little prince meets on earth?
(a) The businessman.
(b) His own shadow self.
(c) The golden snake.
(d) The pilot.

Short Answer Questions

1. When he emerges from the desert, where does the little prince go?

2. On his own planet, what does the little prince use the extinct volcano for?

3. When the pilot sees the snake in Chapter XXVI, what does he do?

4. What does the little prince know about the pilot's engine in Chapter XXVI?

5. Of all the people the little prince meets on the asteroids, he only likes one. Which one does he think he could be friends with?

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