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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 spend all his times in bars and none making maps and observations.
(c) Because he would see double and report two mountains where there was only one.
(d) Because he would forget to come back and give a report to the geographer.

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

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

5. 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 brilliantly lit as they thunder by.
(c) The trains are lit from the inside with lamplight.
(d) The trains create sparks on the tracks that light up the night.

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

7. 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 beautiful.
(b) There is no hope in the desert, all is lost.
(c) The desert is like the stars, full of pieces that cannot be understood.
(d) The desert is a good place to die.

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

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

10. What is unique about the fifth planet, the lamplighter's planet?
(a) It is the smallest.
(b) It is made of soft rubber.
(c) It is spinning at an incredible rate.
(d) There are so many people running around and singing.

11. What does the lamplighter love to do most, which he is never able to do?
(a) Have a big party for all the people on his planet.
(b) Invent electricity.
(c) Rest.
(d) Travel to far away places.

12. When he emerges from the desert, where does the little prince go?
(a) He climbs a high mountain.
(b) He sits down and has a little rest.
(c) He gets a ride in the pilot's airplane.
(d) He opes to find water in the nearest town.

13. Why does the flower in the desert think men are hard to find?
(a) The wind blows them away.
(b) They have all left and now live on far moons.
(c) They live underground.
(d) They are afraid of flowers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the rose garden, the little prince has to face a difficult fact about himself. What is it?

2. Where does the little prince find the fox?

3. When the little prince arrives on the earth, why doesn't he see any people?

4. What does the little prince think is so odd about the geographer?

5. What does the little prince believe that the desert hides?

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