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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 does the narrator think of adults?
(a) They wear nice neckties.
(b) They are mean.
(c) They don't have much imagination.
(d) They are too tall.

2. After the plane crash, what does the pilot do?
(a) Lays down and gives up.
(b) Draws pictures of what he sees.
(c) Starts to fix the engine of the plane.
(d) Runs and runs trying to find help.

3. How many times in one day does the sun set on the little prince's planet?
(a) 4 times.
(b) 400 times.
(c) 44 times.
(d) 40 times.

4. What does the prince's flower have a horror of?
(a) Growing old.
(b) Dishonesty.
(c) Drafts.
(d) Competition.

5. The pilot has to make quite a few drawings before the little prince is satisfied. What picture satisfies him?
(a) Three horses running through a stream.
(b) The sky at dawn.
(c) A wild ram eating pears.
(d) The box with air holes.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the plane crashes in Chapter II, how many people are in it?

2. There is one drawing in Chapter V that the pilot is very proud of. Which one is it?

3. Why does the little prince weed his planet every morning?

4. What does the little prince call the red-faced gentleman who is the businessman?

5. On the fifth day that the pilot and the little prince are together, the secret of the little prince's life is revealed. What is that secret?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why is the little prince so fond of sunsets?

7. The little prince wants to help the tippler. Why is he unable to help?

8. Is the tippler different than the other types? The others are all behaving a certain way but the tippler is escaping from himself by drinking. Why is he included?

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

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

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