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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 structure is near the well?
2. How does the little prince feel when he first arrives on the earth?
3. The little prince wants the fox to play with him. What does the fox say?
4. Night falls and the pilot and little prince are walking in the dark. What do they think of the desert in the moonlight?
5. Why does the geographer think someone who drinks too much is not a reliable source?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the little prince face on earth?
2. What is the lamplighter representative of?
3. The image of a fox is absolutely classic in fable and myth. What does the fox represent?
4. 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?
5. There are a great deal of numbers in this relatively short book. Why?
6. 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?
7. What is the significance of the mountains in Chapter XIX being so very tall?
8. How is the flower in the desert like the flower back on the little prince's planet?
9. 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?
10. What is the little prince's mountaintop experience like and how does it change him?
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
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
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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