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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. Why does the pilot think he is dreaming when he finds the well?
(a) Because he cannot touch it.
(b) It does not look like other wells of the Sahara. It is like the well in a village.
(c) It is made of silver and gold.
(d) It is in a place where no water should be.

2. What sound does the well in the desert make?
(a) It cries, like a child who is afraid.
(b) It creaks, like the hinge of a door that has never been oiled.
(c) It sings, like the song of the lark at break of day.
(d) It moans, like an old weathervane which the wind has long since forgotten.

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

4. What word is used to describe the great pageant of the lamplighters around the world, taking turns to bring light into the darkness?
(a) Idiotic.
(b) Boring.
(c) Magnificent.
(d) Complicated.

5. What is on the lamplighter's planet?
(a) A businessman and his dog who lights lamps.
(b) A lion and his pride and a lamplighter.
(c) A street lamp and a lamp lighter.
(d) A snake who provides light.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the little prince find the fox?

2. When the little prince arrives on the earth, why doesn't he see any people?

3. At what time of day does the pilot find the well?

4. What is unique about the fifth planet, the lamplighter's planet?

5. Who is dying of thirst in the desert?

Short Essay Questions

1. For the geographer, what is of consequence?

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

3. What is surprising about the well?

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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