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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 tell the fox he is looking for?
(a) A way to go back home.
(b) Answers to life's questions.
(c) A way to escape his responsibilities.
(d) Friends.

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

3. Where must the snake bite the little prince?
(a) In the new plane.
(b) In the rose garden.
(c) At the well.
(d) The exact spot where the little prince arrived on the earth.

4. Why does the fox want to be tamed?
(a) He is trying to trick the little prince. He actually does not want to be tamed.
(b) His life is very boring and monotonous. Being tamed will be like the sun shining on his life.
(c) He likes the little prince and thinks he would be fun to hang out with.
(d) He thinks the little prince will feed him chickens if he is tame, and his life will be much easier.

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

6. 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 opes to find water in the nearest town.
(d) He gets a ride in the pilot's airplane.

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

8. What is the job of the railway switchman?
(a) To sort out travelers, in bundles of a thousand.
(b) To give orders and have them obeyed.
(c) To ride trains all day and all night.
(d) To make order of chaos.

9. There would be two lamplighters who would be able to rest for most of the year. Where do they live?
(a) At the North and South pole.
(b) On a small island out in the Pacific Ocean.
(c) In Washington, D.C.
(d) Underground.

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

11. Why does the geographer refuse to record the little prince's flower?
(a) The geographer doesn't like flowers.
(b) The geographer is allergic to flowers.
(c) The geographer says that a flower is ephemeral.
(d) The geographer doesn't know how to spell flower.

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

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

14. Which does the narrator say there are more of on earth, geographers or conceited men?
(a) All geographers are conceited men.
(b) Geographers.
(c) There is an even number of both.
(d) Conceited men.

15. How does the fox define the word "tame"?
(a) It means to break someone down.
(b) It means to be nice.
(c) It means to establish ties.
(d) It means to eliminate all resistance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What structure is near the well?

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

3. What does the first creature the prince meets on earth say he is more powerful than?

4. According to the switchman, what are the adults in the trains pursuing?

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

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