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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. From his perch on the mountain, what does the little prince think of the world?
2. When the little prince arrives on the earth, why doesn't he see any people?
3. What is the army of lamplighters on earth compared to?
4. What does the lamplighter love to do most, which he is never able to do?
5. What is unique about the fifth planet, the lamplighter's planet?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is the little prince overcome with sadness as he stands in the entrance to the grand rose garden?
2. What does the little prince face on earth?
3. 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?
4. What is the little prince's mountaintop experience like and how does it change him?
5. 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?
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 gives the desert its ridges of sand shining in the moonlight - its beauty?
8. 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?
9. The little prince does not have the kind of thirst which the pilot has; what kind of thirst does the little prince have?
10. How does the shift of perception come to completion in the relationship between the fox and the little prince?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is the protagonist in the story? Write an essay on how the protagonist changes as the story progresses. Specify several shifts of perception which this character goes through.
Essay Topic 2
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 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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