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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 structure is near the well?
2. When the little prince watches the trains, he remembers something the fox said. What does he remember?
3. On the little prince's planet, who would speak first, himself or his flower?
4. What is unique about the fifth planet, the lamplighter's planet?
5. When he emerges from the desert, where does the little prince go?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the little prince face on earth?
2. The little prince does not have the kind of thirst which the pilot has; what kind of thirst does the little prince have?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. What is surprising about the well?
6. There are a great deal of numbers in this relatively short book. Why?
7. How does the shift of perception come to completion in the relationship between the fox and the little prince?
8. What is the difference between the adult and child, the pilot and little prince, in terms of their reaction to the golden snake?
9. 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?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is the protagonist in the story? Write an essay on how the protagonist changes as the story progresses. Specify several shifts of perception which this character goes through.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Both the pilot and the little prince drink from the well but they are drinking to quench different thirsts. For the pilot, his life depends upon finding some drinking water. Without it he will die of thirst. What is the little prince seeking? What does he need from the well?
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