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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. At what time of day does the pilot find the well?
(a) At sunset.
(b) In cool midnight.
(c) In the heat of the noon.
(d) At daybreak.

2. What does the flower in the desert know of men?
(a) She is afraid to tell the little prince what she knows, so terrifying is her knowledge.
(b) She once saw a caravan passing. She believes they were the only men in existence.
(c) She knows only what the snake has told her.
(d) She knows everything about the world of men for she once lived in a great garden of roses.

3. When the little prince arrives on the earth, why doesn't he see any people?
(a) He falls into the ocean and almost drowns.
(b) He lands in the Sahara desert.
(c) He isn't looking for them.
(d) Everyone is asleep. It is night.

4. There would be two lamplighters who would be able to rest for most of the year. Where do they live?
(a) In Washington, D.C.
(b) At the North and South pole.
(c) On a small island out in the Pacific Ocean.
(d) Underground.

5. What moves the pilot so much about the little prince whom he carries in his arms across the dark desert?
(a) That he is from another planet and yet is here now.
(b) That the little prince has given up hope and needs protection.
(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. Why does the geographer think someone who drinks too much is not a reliable source?

3. When the little prince is up on the high peak in Chapter XIX, who does he speak with?

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

5. How many men does the flower think there are on earth?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What is surprising about the well?

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

10. What is the lamplighter representative of?

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