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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. When the little prince leaves his planet, does he plan to ever return?
2. What does the king of the first asteroid planet the prince visits believe he rules over?
3. What does the narrator think of adults?
4. What is a Baobab?
5. The visit to the planet of the tippler plunged the little prince into what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the little prince learn from the conceited man?
2. This book was written in French. What are some of the challenge of translating a book from one language into the next?
3. Why does the narrator keep showing his drawing to adults throughout his life?
4. The narrator observes that adults are mostly interested in different things than children are drawn to. What are some of the things the narrator notes about the interests of adults vs. the interests of children?
5. What does the pilot offer to give the little prince for his sheep? Why does the little prince reject his offer?
6. Why is the little prince so fond of sunsets?
7. In Chapter VII, the pilot says "the secret of the little prince's life was revealed to me." What is that secret?
8. Why are the chapters of this book so short?
9. In Chapter V, the little prince reveals what problem he is facing on his home planet. What is it?
10. In a fable everything is symbolic. What is the symbolism of the desert as the central place in the story?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
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.
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