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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. After arriving on the earth and meeting his first earth creature, what does the little prince do?
2. What does the little prince hope to see from the high peak in Chapter XIX?
3. On his own planet, what does the little prince use the extinct volcano for?
4. When the little prince arrives on the earth, why doesn't he see any people?
5. What does the first creature the prince meets on earth say he is more powerful than?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is the little prince overcome with sadness as he stands in the entrance to the grand rose garden?
2. What is the lamplighter representative of?
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. 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?
5. As the little prince faces his appointment with the snake, what is he feeling?
6. What does the geographer represent?
7. What is the significance of the mountains in Chapter XIX being so very tall?
8. 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?
9. What does the little prince face on earth?
10. How is the flower in the desert like the flower back on the little prince's planet?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
In The Little Prince none of the characters are given regular names. They are all identified by a title. This is a very common practice in fables. Why is a fable about types of characters and not specific individuals?
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