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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. According to the pilot in Chapter IV, what are grownups mostly interested in?
(a) Butterflies and feelings.
(b) They are no longer interested in anything.
(c) Things that can be counted, like money and years of age.
(d) Controlling everyone all the time.

2. When the little prince decides to leave the king of the first asteroid planet the prince visits, what does the king do?
(a) Orders the prince to be his ambassador.
(b) Orders the prince to spend life in prison.
(c) Orders the prince to be his friend.
(d) Orders the prince to stay and become his cook.

3. Where does the plane crash happen?
(a) The Desert of Sahara.
(b) Death Valley.
(c) A high, high mountain.
(d) The Atlantic Ocean.

4. What name does a human scholar give little prince's planet?
(a) Astroid B-612.
(b) Turkey.
(c) The Star that is Beyond.
(d) Little Kingdom of Rose.

5. How old was the narrator of this book when he gave up his magnificent painting career?
(a) Fifty years old.
(b) He never gave it up.
(c) Six years old.
(d) Ninety nine years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the businessman doing when the prince first comes across him?

2. When the flower realizes the little prince is leaving, what does she ask for?

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

4. Why does the pilot decide not to draw his airplane in the book?

5. What does the businessman think he owns?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't the little prince answer questions that the pilot asks?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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