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The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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1. What is Drawing Number One supposed to depict?

(A) An elephant inside a boa constrictor

(B) A hat

(D) The fox

2. Where does the narrator's plane crash?

(A) In the Amazon rainforest

(B) In the Gobi desert

(D) On an unnamed island

3. What is the first thing the little prince asks of the pilot?

(A) To help him find the snake

(B) To draw him a sheep

(D) To draw a picture of the baobabs

4. What is the Earth name for the little prince's home planet?

(A) Mars

(B) Asteroid b-612

(D) Asteroid d-814

5. Why does the narrator make note of the name and astronomical history of the little prince's home planet?

(A) Because he feels such details are vital to our understanding of the little prince

(B) As a sign of respect for modern science

(D) As a concession to grown-ups, who view the world in a quantitative way

6. What drawing does the narrator say he worked especially hard on?

(A) The little prince

(B) The baobabs

(D) The Saharan landscape

7. Whom does the little prince love?

(A) Baobabs

(B) A geographer

(D) A lamplighter

8. Why does the little prince leave his planet?

(A) He begins to doubt the rose's sincerity

(B) He wants to visit Earth

(D) A sheep eats his rose

9. Why is the rose certain she can defend herself?

(A) She has four thorns

(B) No large animals exist on the prince's planet

(D) The prince draws her a guard dog

10. Whom does the prince meet on the first planet he visits?

(A) A geographer

(B) A businessman

(D) A conceited man

11. Whom does the prince meet on the second planet?

(A) A businessman

(B) A vain man

(D) A lamplighter

12. Whom does the prince meet on the third planet?

(A) A king

(B) A drunkard

(D) A businessman

13. Whom does the prince meet on the fourth planet?

(A) A businessman

(B) A lamplighter

(D) A geographer

14. Whom does the prince meet on the fifth planet?

(A) A geographer

(B) A three-petaled flower

(D) A lamplighter

15. Whom does the prince meet on the sixth planet?

(A) A geographer

(B) His rose

(D) A drunkard

16. Who is the first being the prince meets on Earth?

(A) The pilot

(B) The snake

(D) A hunter

17. Why does the discovery of the rose garden make the little prince sad?

(A) He discovers he is allergic to roses

(B) He realizes he fell in love too quickly

(D) He learns that his rose is not the only rose in the universe

18. How does the fox define to “tame?”

(A) “To soften the spirit”

(B) “To establish ties”

(D) “To master another being”

19. According to the fox, what makes the prince's rose so important?

(A) Her four thorns can serve as weapons

(B) The time the prince has spent caring for her

(D) Her unmatchable beauty

20. After talking with the little prince, what does the pilot realize makes the desert beautiful?

(A) It hides a well somewhere

(B) There are no grown-ups around to dirty it

(D) Death is always beautiful

21. Why does the pilot worry about the little prince's departure?

(A) The little prince is the only person who can find water

(B) Without the little prince, he will be unable to fix his own plane

(D) The prince is vital to the Earth's safety

22. What sort of pills does the salesclerk the little prince meets sell?

(A) Pills that send people back to where they came from

(B) Thirst-quenching pills

(D) Rose-garden pills

23. What does the narrator say is most important to him in the story's final chapter?

(A) Whether the prince's flower still has thorns

(B) Whether the little prince is alive

(D) Whether the sheep has eaten the prince's rose

24. On his planet, what does the little prince place over the rose at night?

(A) A screen

(B) A glass jar

(D) A warm blanket

25. What is the narrator's occupation?

(A) Geographer

(B) Railway switchman

(D) Salesman

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