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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 much time per week can a person save by taking the thirst quenching pills?

2. Describe the flower which the little prince meets in the desert.

3. What color is the muffler which the little prince wears around his neck?

4. On the lamplighter's planet, how many strides does it take to circle the planet?

5. How many men does the flower think there are on earth?

Short Essay Questions

1. As the little prince faces his appointment with the snake, what is he feeling?

2. 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?

3. What is the lamplighter representative of?

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. What is surprising about the well?

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

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

10. What gives the desert its ridges of sand shining in the moonlight - its beauty?

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

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 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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