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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 does the first creature the prince meets on earth say he is more powerful than?
2. According to the switchman, what are the adults in the trains pursuing?
3. How many men does the flower think there are on earth?
4. Why does the flower in the desert think men are hard to find?
5. Where must the snake bite the little prince?
Short Essay Questions
1. The little prince has learned that what is essential is invisible. How does he apply this to the mad scene of trains rushing this way and that?
2. What does the little prince face on earth?
3. What is surprising about the well?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. What is the little prince's mountaintop experience like and how does it change him?
7. One of the major themes of the book is child vs. adult. What in the description of the earth sets the stage for this tension?
8. Why does the little prince find the lamplighter less ridiculous than the other solo inhabitants?
9. Why is the little prince overcome with sadness as he stands in the entrance to the grand rose garden?
10. The little prince does not have the kind of thirst which the pilot has; what kind of thirst does the little prince have?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
In the book's dedication the author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, dedicates the book to his friend Leon Werth. Then the author changes the dedication slightly. How does he change the dedication and how does that change tie in with the theme of the book?
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