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

2. What did the adults think the child's drawing looked like?
(a) A hat.
(b) A frightening monster.
(c) A tapeworm.
(d) A mountain.

3. There is one drawing in Chapter V that the pilot is very proud of. Which one is it?
(a) A planet with three baobabs on it.
(b) A great canyon with a river snaking through it.
(c) A landscape of the desert.
(d) A family eating dinner on a boat.

4. What does the king of the first asteroid planet the prince visits believe he rules over?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Himself.
(c) Everything.
(d) The prince.

5. The pilot gives the little prince something that the little prince greatly treasures and which he keeps it in his pocket. What is it?
(a) A star chart.
(b) A magic wand.
(c) A glass of water.
(d) The pilot's drawing of a sheep in a box with air holes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of day does the prince's beautiful flower first bloom?

2. In the first line of Chapter I, the narrator mentions a book he once saw. What was the name of that book?

3. What should a person who flies planes study, according to the narrator?

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

5. The morning after the plane crash, when the narrator wakes up, who is standing there?

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 of great consequence to the businessman, and what is of great consequence to the little prince?

3. On asteroid 325 the king sits in his royal purple and ermine. What does this character represent?

4. The asteroid that the little prince lives on was seen by whom?

5. 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?

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

7. In a fable everything is symbolic. What is the symbolism of the desert as the central place in the story?

8. 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?

9. Why does the author of The Little Prince begin this book with a drawing?

10. The author uses light throughout the book to evoke an emotional tone. What does the sunset evoke?

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