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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 does the lamplighter love to do most, which he is never able to do?
2. What does the little prince believe that the desert hides?
3. Who hoists the bucket up from the bottom of the well to the surface?
4. What is on the lamplighter's planet?
5. What is the job of the railway switchman?
Short Essay Questions
1. The image of a fox is absolutely classic in fable and myth. What does the fox represent?
2. What is the difference between the adult and child, the pilot and little prince, in terms of their reaction to the golden snake?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. For the geographer, what is of consequence?
6. 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?
7. What does the little prince face on earth?
8. Why is the little prince overcome with sadness as he stands in the entrance to the grand rose garden?
9. How does the shift of perception come to completion in the relationship between the fox and the little prince?
10. What does the geographer represent?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
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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