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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. Where must the snake bite the little prince?
2. What does the little prince decide that they should look for to quench their thirst in Chapter XXIV?
3. When he emerges from the desert, where does the little prince go?
4. When the little prince arrives on the earth, why doesn't he see any people?
5. How would the geographer be best described?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. Why is the little prince overcome with sadness as he stands in the entrance to the grand rose garden?
5. 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?
6. 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?
7. What is surprising about the well?
8. 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?
9. How is the flower in the desert like the flower back on the little prince's planet?
10. As the little prince faces his appointment with the snake, what is he feeling?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
The fox says, "it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." Write an essay on the meaning of this line and how the story illustrates this philosophy.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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