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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. How does the geographer define ephemeral?

2. Where does the little prince find the fox?

3. Who is dying of thirst in the desert?

4. What is the selling point which the pill merchant offers the little prince?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the geographer represent?

2. How does the shift of perception come to completion in the relationship between the fox and the little prince?

3. What does the little prince face on earth?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

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

9. 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?

10. What is the difference between the adult and child, the pilot and little prince, in terms of their reaction to the golden snake?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Responsibility is a major theme in the book. The author is making a distinction, however, between responsibilities that are real, caring for something that you love and that needs you, example: the little prince and his rose, to responsibilities which are egocentric and absurd, caring for something which is completely unconnected to you and does not need you, example: the businessman and his stars.

Write a short essay using these examples, or choose examples of your own, contrasting the two types of responsibilities and how they differ.

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