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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 do the flowers in the rose garden remind him of?
2. When the little prince arrives on the earth, why doesn't he see any people?
3. What does the little prince think is so odd about the geographer?
4. How many roses are in the garden that the little prince discovers?
5. What is on the lamplighter's planet?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the little prince find the lamplighter less ridiculous than the other solo inhabitants?
2. What is the little prince's mountaintop experience like and how does it change him?
3. Why is the little prince overcome with sadness as he stands in the entrance to the grand rose garden?
4. What is the difference between the adult and child, the pilot and little prince, in terms of their reaction to the golden snake?
5. 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?
6. The little prince does not have the kind of thirst which the pilot has; what kind of thirst does the little prince have?
7. 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?
8. As the little prince faces his appointment with the snake, what is he feeling?
9. How is the flower in the desert like the flower back on the little prince's planet?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
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 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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