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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. How does the little prince feel when he first arrives on the earth?
(a) Finally at peace.
(b) Very happy.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Victorious and confident.

2. What does the first creature the prince meets on earth offer the little prince?
(a) To teach him the difference between good and evil.
(b) To send him back from whence he came.
(c) To teach him all about the earth and its people.
(d) To guide him out of the desert.

3. What is the selling point which the pill merchant offers the little prince?
(a) The pills are cost effective.
(b) The pills save a tremendous amount of time.
(c) The pills are necessary for a high quality of life.
(d) Everyone is using these pills.

4. On his own planet, what does the little prince use the extinct volcano for?
(a) An oven.
(b) A footstool.
(c) It is useless, so he doesn't use it at all.
(d) A landmark to find his way home.

5. How many kings are on earth, according to the pilot?
(a) 16.
(b) 111.
(c) Too many.
(d) Thousands upon thousands.

Short Answer Questions

1. The little prince discovers a rose garden. What is it about this rose garden that makes him so sad?

2. There would be two lamplighters who would be able to rest for most of the year. Where do they live?

3. What is the job of the railway switchman?

4. What does the little prince tell the fox he is looking for?

5. What word is used to describe the great pageant of the lamplighters around the world, taking turns to bring light into the darkness?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the shift of perception, the growth and movement of the protagonist, set in to motion in the chapter where the little prince discovers the rose garden?

2. What is the lamplighter representative of?

3. The flower with only three petals, who lives in the midst of a vast desert, believes that there are only six or seven men in the world. What does she represent in the story?

4. What is surprising about the well?

5. What is the difference between the adult and child, the pilot and little prince, in terms of their reaction to the golden snake?

6. When the end is near, the pilot has no more water to drink and the little prince has found what he was looking for, a remarkable thing happens. What is different about the search for the well? What happens on this stage of the journey that is new?

7. What gives the desert its ridges of sand shining in the moonlight - its beauty?

8. What is the little prince's mountaintop experience like and how does it change him?

9. How is the flower in the desert like the flower back on the little prince's planet?

10. For the geographer, what is of consequence?

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