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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What structure is near the well?
(a) A plane, new and ready to be flown.
(b) The ruin of an old stone wall.
(c) An amphitheatre, long out of use.
(d) A ladder which reaches up into the clouds.

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

3. On the little prince's planet, who would speak first, himself or his flower?
(a) His flower is always the first to speak.
(b) He has to start every conversation.
(c) His flower does not speak.
(d) They both talk at once, they are so excited about everything.

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

5. How does the author use light imagery in the chapter about trains?
(a) The trains are lit from the inside with lamplight.
(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 can operate in the dark as well as the light.

6. What does the little prince think is so odd about the geographer?
(a) That he is blind.
(b) That he is so wise and forgiving.
(c) That he knows nothing of his own planet.
(d) That he eats only paper.

7. What word is used to describe the great pageant of the lamplighters around the world, taking turns to bring light into the darkness?
(a) Complicated.
(b) Magnificent.
(c) Boring.
(d) Idiotic.

8. How many kings are on earth, according to the pilot?
(a) Too many.
(b) 111.
(c) 16.
(d) Thousands upon thousands.

9. 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 realizes that his flower is not the only one of her kind in the universe.
(c) He feels inferior to to the flowers.
(d) He believes there is too much beauty to take in.

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

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

12. Who hoists the bucket up from the bottom of the well to the surface?
(a) The woman by the well.
(b) The snake.
(c) The pilot.
(d) The little prince.

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

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

15. At what time of day does the pilot find the well?
(a) In cool midnight.
(b) At sunset.
(c) At daybreak.
(d) In the heat of the noon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men does the flower think there are on earth?

2. How does the geographer define ephemeral?

3. How many thirst-quenching pills would one need in order to feel full of liquid, according to Chapter XXIII?

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

5. What does the little prince tell the fox he is looking for?

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