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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. If all humanity were to stand upright and crowd together how much space would they take up, according to Chapter XVII?

2. When he emerges from the desert, where does the little prince go?

3. What does the first creature the prince meets on earth offer the little prince?

4. What does the flower in the desert know of men?

5. Why does the pilot think he is dreaming when he finds the well?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the little prince's mountaintop experience like and how does it change him?

2. The flower with only three petals, who lives in the midst of a vast desert, believes that there are only six or seven men in the world. What does she represent in the story?

3. Why is the little prince overcome with sadness as he stands in the entrance to the grand rose garden?

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. What is the significance of the mountains in Chapter XIX being so very tall?

6. The image of a fox is absolutely classic in fable and myth. What does the fox represent?

7. When the end is near, the pilot has no more water to drink and the little prince has found what he was looking for, a remarkable thing happens. What is different about the search for the well? What happens on this stage of the journey that is new?

8. Why does the little prince find the lamplighter less ridiculous than the other solo inhabitants?

9. There are a great deal of numbers in this relatively short book. Why?

10. What is surprising about the well?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Of all the planets that the little prince visits there is one where he finds a person he might like to be friends with. The lamplighter is different from the other adult types.

1) What sets the lamplighter apart from the other men?

2) What is it that the lamplighter and the little prince have in common?

Essay Topic 2

This book is considered to be a fable. A fable is a story with a moral, a message in it. What is one of the major messages/morals of this book?

Essay Topic 3

Why does the little prince leave his planet in Chapter IX? What is he running from? What is he hoping to find on his journey?

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