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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 tippler surrounded by?
(a) Musical instruments.
(b) Cups.
(c) Empty bottles and full bottles.
(d) Friends and companions.

2. When the little prince leaves his planet, he says goodbye to the flower and goes to put her glass globe on. Why does she say she doesn't need the protection any more?
(a) The flower is too vain to be covered up.
(b) Because the flower wants to become acquainted with the butterflies.
(c) Because the flower no longer wants to live and hopes something would soon eat her.
(d) The flowers wants to make him feel guilty for leaving.

3. How many people live on the conceited man's planet?
(a) All the conceited people in the universe live there.
(b) Only one.
(c) Three.
(d) Seventy Seven and a half.

4. Why does the pilot decide not to draw his airplane in the book?
(a) It is a secret design.
(b) It is much too complicated.
(c) It is invisible and has no shape.
(d) He has no pencil.

5. What does the discoverer of the little prince's planet do in order to be taken seriously?
(a) He wears European clothing.
(b) He speaks slowly and clearly.
(c) He demands that he be heard.
(d) He writes a scientifice treatise and gets it published.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting in which the pilot and little prince meet?

2. What does the conceited man ask the little prince to do?

3. What is the little prince feeling much of the time?

4. Why does the little prince think he can watch a sunset anytime?

5. Why does the little prince laugh at the notion of the airplane falling from the sky?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the pilot offer to give the little prince for his sheep? Why does the little prince reject his offer?

2. What is symbolic about the pilot making drawings in Chapter II?

3. In Chapter V, the little prince reveals what problem he is facing on his home planet. What is it?

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

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

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

7. The narrator observes that adults are mostly interested in different things than children are drawn to. What are some of the things the narrator notes about the interests of adults vs. the interests of children?

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

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

10. When the little prince is leaving his planet, he goes to put the glass globe over the flower. She says no. Why does she decide to go without this protection?

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