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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. What is the businessman doing when the prince first comes across him?

2. Why is it hard to learn where the little prince came from?

3. How many thorns does the prince's unique flower have?

4. The pilot (as a child) drew an animal eating another animal. What was being eaten?

5. What is the little prince's plan to safeguard his planet from baobabs?

Short Essay Questions

1. In a fable everything is symbolic. What is the symbolism of the desert as the central place in the story?

2. What does the little prince's flower represent in this fable?

3. On asteroid 325 the king sits in his royal purple and ermine. What does this character represent?

4. Why are the chapters of this book so short?

5. What does the pilot offer to give the little prince for his sheep? Why does the little prince reject his offer?

6. What is the symbolism of the little prince not pulling out the newly sprouted seed which he does not recognize?

7. Why do the inhabitants of these six asteroids have no given names? Why are they "types"?

8. Is the tippler different than the other types? The others are all behaving a certain way but the tippler is escaping from himself by drinking. Why is he included?

9. What is symbolic about the pilot making drawings in Chapter II?

10. Why is the drawing of the baobab so detailed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The ending of the book is very mysterious. What happened with the snake? Did the little prince return to his planet? How? Did the little prince die? Did the little prince get his sheep to eat the baobabs? Did the flower live? Did the sheep eat the flower?

Why has the author left so much mystery at the end of the book for us to dwell on? How does this fit in with the theme of learning to love ephemeral things?

Essay Topic 2

The author of The Little Princ" both wrote the words and illustrated the book. His illustrations are very childlike.

1) Why is this important? Why didn't he get someone to illustrate the book with color photographs, charts and maps?

2) What effect do these simple drawings have on the reader?

Essay Topic 3

Light is a strong visual image in The Little Prince. Name some of the different forms in which light appears in the book. Write a short essay on the use of light in The Little Prince.

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