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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 final drawing which the little prince requests from the pilot?
(a) The desert in moonlight.
(b) A self-portrait.
(c) A better rendition of the baobab trees.
(d) A muzzle for the little prince's sheep.

2. Why does the geographer refuse to record the little prince's flower?
(a) The geographer doesn't know how to spell flower.
(b) The geographer doesn't like flowers.
(c) The geographer is allergic to flowers.
(d) The geographer says that a flower is ephemeral.

3. How many men does the flower think there are on earth?
(a) Three billion.
(b) Perhaps 10,000 or more. She is not sure.
(c) Six or seven.
(d) Only the pilot.

4. What structure is near the well?
(a) An amphitheatre, long out of use.
(b) The ruin of an old stone wall.
(c) A ladder which reaches up into the clouds.
(d) A plane, new and ready to be flown.

5. What does the little prince hope to see from the high peak in Chapter XIX?
(a) "The whole planet at one glance and all the people..."
(b) "The wide range of the galaxy and its inhabitants..."
(c) "The way to go home..."
(d) "The range of choices available to me..."

Short Answer Questions

1. After arriving on the earth and meeting his first earth creature, what does the little prince do?

2. Who does the allegorical character of the pill merchant represent?

3. What does the lamplighter love to do most, which he is never able to do?

4. What is the army of lamplighters on earth compared to?

5. What does the little prince decide that they should look for to quench their thirst in Chapter XXIV?

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

3. What is surprising about the well?

4. What is the lamplighter representative of?

5. 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?

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

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

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

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?

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