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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How small is the planet where the prince comes from, as described in Chapter III?
2. The morning after the plane crash, when the narrator wakes up, who is standing there?
3. What does the little prince call the red-faced gentleman who is the businessman?
4. How does the little prince reveal that he might be from another planet?
5. Who is the scholar that discovers the little prince's planet?
Short Essay Questions
1. On asteroid 325 the king sits in his royal purple and ermine. What does this character represent?
2. What does the pilot offer to give the little prince for his sheep? Why does the little prince reject his offer?
3. Why do the inhabitants of these six asteroids have no given names? Why are they "types"?
4. Why is the little prince so fond of sunsets?
5. Again, readers see the use of light by the author in setting the tone of Chapter VII. When the little prince is choked by sobbing, what is happening to the light?
6. When the little prince is leaving his planet, he goes to put the glass globe over the flower. She says no. Why does she decide to go without this protection?
7. What is symbolic about the pilot making drawings in Chapter II?
8. What does the little prince's flower represent in this fable?
9. Why is the little prince bored on the planet of the king?
10. The narrator of the book is introduced in Chapter 1. He is not an anonymous narrator but a character in the story. What does the first chapter reveal about him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The fox says, "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." What does the fox mean by this? Is this an important statement in the book? Write an essay which supports the idea that this line is a central message of the book.
Essay Topic 2
The adults in the book want solid things. The geographer calls them "eternal things." Children are portrayed as being drawn to "ephemeral things" which the geographer defines as "in danger of speedy disappearance." One of the things the little prince must learn is how to love something that will someday be gone. Discuss some places in the book where the little prince suddenly understands more about loving something that is in danger of disappearing.
Essay Topic 3
No one in the story seems to have any human companions. The characters live alone and are defined by the objects that surround them. (For example, the pilot is defined by his plane. The switchman by his trains.) What atmosphere does this create and how does the story of the pilot and the little prince fit in this solitary world?
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