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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 roses are in the garden that the little prince discovers?
(a) Three.
(b) Five hundred.
(c) Five thousand.
(d) More than ten.

2. Where must the snake bite the little prince?
(a) In the rose garden.
(b) In the new plane.
(c) At the well.
(d) The exact spot where the little prince arrived on the earth.

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

4. Who is dying of thirst in the desert?
(a) Both the pilot and the little prince. The pilot's thirst is physical ,and the little prince needs spiritual awakening.
(b) The little prince is smaller and more susceptible to dying of thirst.
(c) The pilot is dying of thirst. The little prince is not human and does not need water.
(d) Neither are dying of thirst. They are only panicking. It is not really a problem.

5. How does the author use light imagery in the chapter about trains?
(a) The trains are lit from the inside with lamplight.
(b) The trains can operate in the dark as well as the light.
(c) The trains are brilliantly lit as they thunder by.
(d) The trains create sparks on the tracks that light up the night.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the selling point which the pill merchant offers the little prince?

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

3. How many people, approximately, does the narrator say live on the earth?

4. What does the first creature the prince meets on earth say he is more powerful than?

5. In the rose garden, when the little prince realizes the truth of his life and of the things he loves, what does he do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Water is used as a metaphor for life giving wisdom. What then is the critique that the author is making about modern day society in the story about the merchant who sells thirst-quenching pills?

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

3. 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?

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

5. One of the major themes of the book is child vs. adult. What in the description of the earth sets the stage for this tension?

6. What is the significance of the mountains in Chapter XIX being so very tall?

7. When the little prince arrives on earth he immediately meets the snake. The conversation with the snake foreshadows the end of the book. Explain the use of foreshadowing. What tension does the snake's presence create?

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

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

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

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