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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 pilot working on that he thinks will help him get out of the desert?
(a) Making paper airplanes.
(b) The engine of his plane.
(c) A book about geography.
(d) A map showing the way out of the desert.

2. What is the tippler doing?
(a) Drinking to forget.
(b) Drinking to find the best wine.
(c) Drinking to cure his dehydration.
(d) Drinking to remember.

3. What does the conceited man want to be admired as?
(a) The most generous of all beings.
(b) The biggest clown of them all.
(c) The handsomest, the best dressed, the richest, and the most intelligent man on the planet.
(d) The happiest soul lin the galaxy.

4. What does the little prince point out to the businessman when he first meets him?
(a) "Your cigarette has gone out."
(b) "You are a silly man."
(c) "You are very good at counting. Bravo!"
(d) "You've dropped a couple of coins on your foot."

5. How many thorns does the prince's unique flower have?
(a) Almost a hundred thorns.
(b) One thorn.
(c) Four thorns.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a Baobab?

2. What did the child ask the adults when he showed them the picture?

3. What does the little prince do so that he can see the maximum number of sunsets on his planet?

4. According to the pilot in Chapter IV, what are grownups mostly interested in?

5. The pilot reveals that after he becomes friends with the little prince he starts doing something again. What is it?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

9. What does the little prince's flower represent in this fable?

10. 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?

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