2. Why does the fox want to be tamed?
(a) He is trying to trick the little prince. He actually does not want to be tamed.
(b) He likes the little prince and thinks he would be fun to hang out with.
(c) His life is very boring and monotonous. Being tamed will be like the sun shining on his life.
(d) He thinks the little prince will feed him chickens if he is tame, and his life will be much easier.

3. Why does the pilot think he is dreaming when he finds the well?
(a) Because he cannot touch it.
(b) It is in a place where no water should be.
(c) It is made of silver and gold.
(d) It does not look like other wells of the Sahara. It is like the well in a village.

4. What does the little prince decide that they should look for to quench their thirst in Chapter XXIV?
(a) A well.
(b) Baobab trees.
(c) A bottle of thirst quenching pills.
(d) Death.

5. What moves the pilot so much about the little prince whom he carries in his arms across the dark desert?
(a) That the little prince has given up hope and needs protection.
(b) That he is from another planet and yet is here now.
(c) His loyalty to a flower--the image of a rose that shines through his whole being.
(d) That the little prince is dying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the little prince believe that the desert hides?

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

3. How many days have the pilot and little prince been together when the pilot drinks the last of his water supply?

4. When he emerges from the desert, where does the little prince go?

5. Why does the flower in the desert think men are hard to find?

Short Essay Questions

1. The little prince does not have the kind of thirst which the pilot has; what kind of thirst does the little prince have?

2. After visiting the six asteroids, the little prince has learned many things. In his last visit he seems to have regret that he has left his ephemeral flower all alone. Why doesn't he return? Why does he continue his journey?

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

4. 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?

5. What does the little prince face on earth?

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

7. What is the lamplighter representative of?

8. There are a great deal of numbers in this relatively short book. Why?

9. How does the shift of perception come to completion in the relationship between the fox and the little prince?

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

(see the answer keys)

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