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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does the allegorical character of the pill merchant represent?
(a) Wall street brokers.
(b) People who sell us things we don't need.
(c) The physician and his team of nurses.
(d) The pharmaceutical industry.

3. Is the little prince interested in buying the pills?
(a) Yes. He is taking them with him as he goes back to the desert.
(b) No. He would rather use the time to walk towards a spring of fresh water.
(c) Yes. He thinks they will be a good investment and produce income.
(d) Yes. He thinks his flower will enjoy not having to be watered.

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

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

6. What does the little prince decide that they should look for to quench their thirst in Chapter XXIV?
(a) A bottle of thirst quenching pills.
(b) Death.
(c) A well.
(d) Baobab trees.

7. When the little prince arrives on the earth, why doesn't he see any people?
(a) He isn't looking for them.
(b) Everyone is asleep. It is night.
(c) He lands in the Sahara desert.
(d) He falls into the ocean and almost drowns.

8. How many roses are in the garden that the little prince discovers?
(a) Five hundred.
(b) More than ten.
(c) Five thousand.
(d) Three.

9. Why does the geographer think someone who drinks too much is not a reliable source?
(a) Because he would get lost too often.
(b) Because he would see double and report two mountains where there was only one.
(c) Because he would forget to come back and give a report to the geographer.
(d) Because he would spend all his times in bars and none making maps and observations.

10. 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) Take two pills and call the doctor in the morning.
(c) One pill a week.
(d) Take two pills whenever you feel thirsty.

11. When the little prince is up on the high peak in Chapter XIX, who does he speak with?
(a) A black snake.
(b) An eagle.
(c) The sky god.
(d) An echo.

12. What does the little prince believe that the desert hides?
(a) Snakes that can kill.
(b) A well.
(c) A home for the ages.
(d) The secret of eternal youth.

13. The little prince discovers a rose garden. What is it about this rose garden that makes him so sad?
(a) He falls in love with all the roses.
(b) He feels inferior to to the flowers.
(c) He believes there is too much beauty to take in.
(d) He realizes that his flower is not the only one of her kind in the universe.

14. What sound does the well in the desert make?
(a) It sings, like the song of the lark at break of day.
(b) It cries, like a child who is afraid.
(c) It creaks, like the hinge of a door that has never been oiled.
(d) It moans, like an old weathervane which the wind has long since forgotten.

15. Describe the flower which the little prince meets in the desert.
(a) It is a flower full of haughty pride and great intellectual understanding.
(b) It is a flower which had fallen from a nearby by baobab tree, lonely and sad.
(c) It is a flower much like his own beloved flower, full of color and light.
(d) It is a flower with three petals, a flower of no account at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the fox so interested in the little prince's planet?

2. What does the little prince ask about the poison which the snake has within it?

3. Who is dying of thirst in the desert?

4. The lamplighter says a day on his planet is how long?

5. At what time of day does the pilot find the well?

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