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The Little Prince
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Reading Check, Multiple Choice & Short Answer Quizzes
Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.
Chapters 1-9
Reading Check
1. How do the adults react when the narrator shows them his picture book?
2. How does the pilot figure out the prince is from another planet?
3. What does the prince do for amusement on his home planet?
4. Why does the prince get agitated when the pilot refuses to answer his questions about thorny flowers?
Multiple Choice
1. What does the narrator grow up to be?
A) an artist
B) a botanist
C) a pilot
D) a lawyer
2. Why were people hesitant to believe the astronomer who discovered B-612?
A) He was Turkish and dressed in non-Western clothes.
B) He was Turkish and believed in Islam.
C) He was Turkish and spoke with a strange accent.
D) He was Turkish and didn’t go to school in Britain.
3. What makes the baobabs bad plants?
A) They are poisonous.
B) They can break planets.
C) They attract pests.
D) They infest homes.
4. Why did the prince leave his home planet?
A) The prince is on a mission to colonize other planets.
B) The prince was bored and needed an adventure.
C) The prince wanted to get away from the flower.
D) The prince is searching for the flower.
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Why is the narrator hesitant to draw the sheep?
2. Why does the pilot not start his story with “once upon a time,” and how does this connect to his analysis of adults?
3. What depiction of the baobabs does the prince ask the pilot to draw, and why does the pilot hesitate to do it?
4. Why did the prince get annoyed with the flower on his home planet and why does he regret this?
Chapters10-19
Reading Check
1. Why does the prince call the man he meets on the second planet he visits the “vain man”?
2. Why does the prince find the lamplighter less absurd than other people he’s met on other planets?
3. How does the geographer make the prince worry about the flower?
4. How does the pilot connect to the prince’s stories about the people he meets on other planets?
Multiple Choice
1. What does the king command people to do?
A. only impossible things
B. only things that are easy to follow
C. random things depending on the king’s mood
D. specific things that comfort the king’s ego
2. Why does the drunkard drink so much?
A. He is depressed about being alone.
B. He is bored.
C. He is ashamed of drinking.
D. He can only be happy if he’s drunk.
3. What power does the snake possess?
A. The snake can predict the future.
B. The snake knows the entirety of Earth’s history.
C. The snake can grant wishes.
D. The snake can make anyone return to their home with a bite.
4. Why does the Earth flower believe it’s difficult to meet humans?
A. They are rootless.
B. They are unfriendly.
C. They are suspicious by nature.
D. They’re always busy working.
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Why does the prince refuse the king’s offer to stay on his planet as minister of justice?
2. Why does the businessman remind the prince of the drunkard?
3. What does the geographer tell the prince about the kinds of explorers he gathers information from?
4. Why does the prince believe humans have no imagination?
Chapters 20-27
Reading Check
1. Why is the prince surprised to meet roses on Earth?
2. According to the railway switchman, who are the only humans who pay attention to their surroundings?
3. What would the prince do with an extra 53 free minutes?
4. Why does the prince want the pilot to leave before the prince leaves?
Multiple Choice
1. Why does the prince agree to tame the fox?
A) The fox is lonely and needs a friend.
B) Even if he can’t make any human friends, he can at least be can be friends with the fox.
C) Taming the fox would be a good deed.
D) He wants to fox to be able to come to his home planet with him.
2. Which of the following quotes best identifies the fox’s lesson for the prince?
A) “[…] if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine.”
B) “The wheat, which is golden, will remind me of you.”
C) “One sees clearly only with the heart.”
D) “You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed.”
4. How long has the prince been on Earth?
A) three days
B) a lifetime
C) one year
D) He isn’t sure.
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Why does the fox want the prince to tame him?
2. What does the pilot learn during his search for water, and how does the prince connect this revelation to a lesson from the fox?
3. How does the prince help the pilot become comfortable with the idea of the prince leaving Earth?
4. Years after meeting the prince, what does the pilot continue to fret over and why?
Quizzes – Answer Key
Chapters 1-9
Reading Check
1. They tell him he should think less about his stories and focus on geography and arithmetic. (Chapter 1)
2. The prince asks the pilot what planet he’s from. (Chapter 3)
3. watches sunsets (Chapter 6)
4. The pilot is acting like a grown-up. (Chapter 7)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. He never learned how to draw well because the adults discouraged his drawing, so he isn’t sure he knows how to draw the sheep. (Chapter 2)
2. The pilot knows people won’t take his story as seriously with that opening. Since adults don’t understand how to conceptualize things that aren’t numbered or labeled neatly, they would not take a story seriously if it begins like a child’s story. (Chapter 4)
3. The prince asks the pilot to draw a picture that can be used as a warning sign for children to pull out the baobabs when they see them. He hesitates to draw the sign because he doesn’t want to be a moralist. (Chapter 5)
4. The flower was always arguing with him and obsessing over her looks. He regrets his frustration because he realizes she also brought light to his life despite the annoyance. (Chapter 8)
Chapters 10-19
Reading Check
1. because the man can only hear praise (Chapter 11)
2. at least his job has some meaning (Chapter 14)
3. The geographer teaches him the word “ephemeral,” and the prince worries the flower has disappeared in his absence. (Chapter 15)
4. on Earth, there are kings, businessmen, drunkard, and lamplighters (Chapter 16)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. The prince decides not to take up the king’s offer because there is no one to judge. The prince doesn’t want to judge the only rat on the planet and is worried about having that power. Furthermore, the prince doesn’t need to stay on the king’s planet to judge himself. (Chapter 10)
2. The businessman and the drunkard share a strange cyclical logic. The businessman counts stars so he can own the stars and buy more stars, thus keeping him in a cycle of counting stars. Similarly, the drunkard drinks because he is ashamed of drinking, thus keeping him in a cycle of drinking. (Chapter 13)
3. The geographer relies on explorers to give him reports about other places. The geographer is careful about which explorers he trusts because any lies could cause disasters in history books. Furthermore, he worries about drunk explorers who see the world incorrectly in their drunken gaze. (Chapter 15)
4. The prince believes humans have no imagination because he is always speaking first on Earth. This is different than on his home planet, where the flower is always starting conversation. (Chapter 19)
Chapters 20-27
Reading Check
1. It shows his flower is not unique like he previously thought. (Chapter 20)
2. the children (Chapter 22)
3. walk slowly to a water fountain (Chapter 23)
4. It will be traumatic to watch the prince disappear from the snake bite. (Chapter 26)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. The fox wants to know how to determine the difference between footsteps. The fox’s life consists only of hunting and being hunted, but he wants to be able to play and make friends. (Chapter 21)
2. The pilot figures out that humans want a surplus of roses when only one rose will give them the same pleasure. The prince connects this to the fox’s lesson that people need to look with the heart. (Chapter 25)
3. The prince doesn’t tell the pilot where exactly his planet is. This way, when the prince returns to his planet, the pilot can take comfort that all the stars represent the prince and when the pilot misses the prince, all he needs to do is look up at the brilliant lights in the sky. (Chapter 26)
4. The pilot still frets over not drawing a muzzle for the sheep drawing. If the sheep doesn’t have a muzzle, he worries the sheep will eat the prince’s precious flower. This concerns the pilot because if the sheep eats the flower, then everything will be fundamentally changed. (Chapter 27)
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