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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people, approximately, does the narrator say live on the earth?
(a) Too many to count.
(b) 462,511.
(c) Only one. The pilot.
(d) 2,000,000,000.

2. Where does the geographer advise the little prince to visit next?
(a) Go home and take care of the flower.
(b) Go back to the lamplighter and learn from him.
(c) Go to the rings of Saturn and visit the third moon.
(d) Earth, because it has a good reputation.

3. 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.

4. 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 his flower will enjoy not having to be watered.
(c) Yes. He is taking them with him as he goes back to the desert.
(d) Yes. He thinks they will be a good investment and produce income.

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

6. What does the railway switchmen think of children?
(a) Children waste too much time.
(b) Children should become adults as soon as possible.
(c) Only children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes. They are lucky.
(d) Children should not bother busy switchmen while they are working.

7. 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) Because he cannot touch it.
(c) It is made of silver and gold.
(d) It is in a place where no water should be.

8. What is the army of lamplighters on earth compared to?
(a) A ballet or opera.
(b) Fireworks.
(c) Clockwork.
(d) The changing of the seasons.

9. 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 stamps his little foot and shouts for help.
(d) He lays down in the grass and cries.

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

11. 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) "Nothing good can happen quickly."
(c) "Stop and smell the roses."
(d) "Don't go so fast that you miss your life."

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the first creature the prince meets on earth offer the little prince?

2. When the pilot sees the snake in Chapter XXVI, what does he do?

3. What does the lamplighter love to do most, which he is never able to do?

4. What word is used to describe the great pageant of the lamplighters around the world, taking turns to bring light into the darkness?

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

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