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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the children on the trains waste their time over?
(a) A rag doll.
(b) Nothing. They are all quite efficient.
(c) Wanting to get their parent's attention.
(d) Spilled milk.

2. 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.

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

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

5. From his perch on the mountain, what does the little prince think of the world?
(a) That is it a magnificent and noble place.
(b) That it is all together dry, pointed, harsh, and forbidding.
(c) That is is quite exciting and glorious.
(d) That it is dangerous and dark.

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

7. On his own planet, what does the little prince use the extinct volcano for?
(a) A footstool.
(b) A landmark to find his way home.
(c) An oven.
(d) It is useless, so he doesn't use it at all.

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

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

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

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

12. The lamplighter says a day on his planet is how long?
(a) One day.
(b) One year.
(c) A hundred years.
(d) One minute.

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

14. Why does the geographer think someone who drinks too much is not a reliable source?
(a) Because he would spend all his times in bars and none making maps and observations.
(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 get lost too often.

15. In the rose garden, when the little prince realizes the truth of his life and of the things he loves, what does he do?
(a) He gives up and goes back to the desert.
(b) He runs and runs, as fast as his little legs will go.
(c) He lays down in the grass and cries.
(d) He stamps his little foot and shouts for help.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the railway switchmen think of children?

2. On the little prince's planet, who would speak first, himself or his flower?

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

4. On the lamplighter's planet, how many strides does it take to circle the planet?

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

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