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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 many flowers does the little prince meet in the desert?
(a) Only one.
(b) Hundreds. A vast garden of roses and lilacs.
(c) About 15. They are all fighting over water.
(d) On the baobab tree there were three lovely flowers.

2. How does the fox define the word "tame"?
(a) It means to eliminate all resistance.
(b) It means to establish ties.
(c) It means to be nice.
(d) It means to break someone down.

3. What does the little prince tell the fox he is looking for?
(a) Friends.
(b) Answers to life's questions.
(c) A way to go back home.
(d) A way to escape his responsibilities.

4. What is the first creature the little prince meets on earth?
(a) The pilot.
(b) His own shadow self.
(c) The businessman.
(d) The golden snake.

5. Where does the little prince find the fox?
(a) Eating roses.
(b) Under the apple tree.
(c) Chasing some chickens.
(d) In his own imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe the flower which the little prince meets in the desert.

2. What do the flowers in the rose garden remind him of?

3. Why does the pilot think he is dreaming when he finds the well?

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

5. What structure is near the well?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the geographer represent?

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

3. 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?

4. What is surprising about the well?

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

6. As the little prince faces his appointment with the snake, what is he feeling?

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

8. 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?

9. For the geographer, what is of consequence?

10. Why is the little prince overcome with sadness as he stands in the entrance to the grand rose garden?

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