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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting in which the pilot and little prince meet?
(a) The desert.
(b) The seashore.
(c) The palace.
(d) England and Wales.

2. When the pilot and the little prince first meet, what time of day is it?
(a) It was too foggy to tell.
(b) Deepest midnight.
(c) Sunrise.
(d) High noon.

3. When the little prince leaves his planet, does he plan to ever return?
(a) No.
(b) Yes, he is just going to find more flowers.
(c) Yes, he is just planning a short vacation.
(d) He doesn't have a plan one way or the other.

4. When the plane crashes in Chapter II, how many people are in it?
(a) No one is in the plane.
(b) A large family of forty five.
(c) Just one.
(d) Fifteen.

5. The pilot reveals that after he becomes friends with the little prince he starts doing something again. What is it?
(a) Procrastinating.
(b) Drawing.
(c) Biting his nails.
(d) Worrying about everything.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times in the 54 years the businessman has inhabited his planet has he been disturbed?

2. Where does the plane crash happen?

3. What does the little prince tell the businessman that he owns?

4. How is a drawing of a sheep different from a drawing of a ram?

5. When the little prince decides to leave the king of the first asteroid planet the prince visits, what does the king do?

Short Essay Questions

1. The Little Prince is considered to be a fable. What does that mean?

2. What is the symbolism of the little prince not pulling out the newly sprouted seed which he does not recognize?

3. What is the meaning of the title The Little Prince?

4. Why are the chapters of this book so short?

5. Why is the drawing of the baobab so detailed?

6. Why do the inhabitants of these six asteroids have no given names? Why are they "types"?

7. What does the little prince never let go of once it has been asked?

8. The narrator of the book is introduced in Chapter 1. He is not an anonymous narrator but a character in the story. What does the first chapter reveal about him?

9. In Chapter VII, the pilot says "the secret of the little prince's life was revealed to me." What is that secret?

10. Why does the narrator keep showing his drawing to adults throughout his life?

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