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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 thousand.
(c) Five hundred.
(d) More than ten.

2. How many days have the pilot and little prince been together when the pilot drinks the last of his water supply?
(a) Two days.
(b) Forty four days.
(c) A year and a half.
(d) Eight days.

3. What does the lamplighter love to do most, which he is never able to do?
(a) Rest.
(b) Travel to far away places.
(c) Have a big party for all the people on his planet.
(d) Invent electricity.

4. Why does the fox want to be tamed?
(a) He likes the little prince and thinks he would be fun to hang out with.
(b) He is trying to trick the little prince. He actually does not want to be tamed.
(c) His life is very boring and monotonous. Being tamed will be like the sun shining on his life.
(d) He thinks the little prince will feed him chickens if he is tame, and his life will be much easier.

5. 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 says that a flower is ephemeral.
(c) The geographer doesn't like flowers.
(d) The geographer is allergic to flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of all the people the little prince meets on the asteroids, he only likes one. Which one does he think he could be friends with?

2. What does the little prince ask about the poison which the snake has within it?

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

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

5. The little prince wants the fox to play with him. What does the fox say?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the little prince face on earth?

2. 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?

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

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

5. For the geographer, what is of consequence?

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

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. 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?

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