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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 power of science.
(b) The great advances of technology.
(c) The way we falsely feed our thirst with things that do not give us life.
(d) Progress in problem solving.

2. When the little prince watches the trains, he remembers something the fox said. What does he remember?
(a) "Stop and smell the roses."
(b) "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
(c) "Don't go so fast that you miss your life."
(d) "Nothing good can happen quickly."

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

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

5. When the pilot sees the snake in Chapter XXVI, what does he do?
(a) Goes for his revolver.
(b) Laughs it off.
(c) Throws stones at it until it slithers away.
(d) Runs for the hills.

6. Why does the pilot think he is dreaming when he finds the well?
(a) It does not look like other wells of the Sahara. It is like the well in a village.
(b) It is in a place where no water should be.
(c) Because he cannot touch it.
(d) It is made of silver and gold.

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

8. What does the little prince ask about the poison which the snake has within it?
(a) Do you promise not to poison the pilot?
(b) How many times will you have to bite me before your poison works?
(c) Is your poison powerful enough to make me fly?
(d) You have good poison? You are sure it will not make me suffer long?

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

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

11. According to the switchman, what are the adults in the trains pursuing?
(a) Money and fame.
(b) Getting to their destination first.
(c) Nothing at all.
(d) Each other.

12. What is on the lamplighter's planet?
(a) A snake who provides light.
(b) A lion and his pride and a lamplighter.
(c) A businessman and his dog who lights lamps.
(d) A street lamp and a lamp lighter.

13. How does the author use light imagery in the chapter about trains?
(a) The trains can operate in the dark as well as the light.
(b) The trains are lit from the inside with lamplight.
(c) The trains are brilliantly lit as they thunder by.
(d) The trains create sparks on the tracks that light up the night.

14. How would the geographer be best described?
(a) An intelligent man who knows how to write books.
(b) A man who has explored the whole galaxy.
(c) A brave man who has battled his way through jungles and deserts.
(d) A scholar who knows the location of all the seas, rivers, towns, mountains, and deserts.

15. After arriving on the earth and meeting his first earth creature, what does the little prince do?
(a) He gives up and goes home.
(b) He find the pilot.
(c) He crosses the desert.
(d) He makes a map of the desert.

Short Answer Questions

1. There would be two lamplighters who would be able to rest for most of the year. Where do they live?

2. Why does the flower in the desert think men are hard to find?

3. How many kings are on earth, according to the pilot?

4. The little prince discovers a rose garden. What is it about this rose garden that makes him so sad?

5. What does the railway switchmen think of children?

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