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

2. How does the little prince feel when he first arrives on the earth?
(a) Very happy.
(b) Victorious and confident.
(c) Finally at peace.
(d) Lonely.

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

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

5. What color is the muffler which the little prince wears around his neck?
(a) The color of his flower.
(b) Golden.
(c) Black as night.
(d) White as snow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the little prince tell the fox he is looking for?

2. On the lamplighter's planet, how many strides does it take to circle the planet?

3. Who hoists the bucket up from the bottom of the well to the surface?

4. How many kings are on earth, according to the pilot?

5. What structure is near the well?

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

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

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. The little prince has learned that what is essential is invisible. How does he apply this to the mad scene of trains rushing this way and that?

6. 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?

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

8. Why does the little prince find the lamplighter less ridiculous than the other solo inhabitants?

9. The switchman is a person whose actions do have consequences. In that way he is different from the other adult archetypes. How is he similar?

10. The image of a fox is absolutely classic in fable and myth. What does the fox represent?

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