ELE 19 Quiz #1

What is Drawing Number One supposed to depict?

• • An elephant inside a boa constrictor

• A hat

• The baobabs

• The fox

Where does the narrator’s plane crash?

• In the Amazon rainforest

• • In the Sahara desert

• • In the Gobi desert

• On an unnamed island

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

• • Because he feels such details are vital to our understanding of the little prince

• Because the little prince asked him to

• As a sign of respect for modern science

• • As a concession to grown-ups, who view the world in a quantitative way

Whom does the little prince love?

• • Baobabs

• • A rose

• A geographer

• A lamplighter

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

• • A geographer

• • A king

• A businessman

• A conceited man

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

• • It hides a well somewhere

• The grains of sand glitter like the stars in the sky

• There are no grown-ups around to dirty it

• Death is always beautiful

Who is the narrator of The Little Prince?

• Geographer

• Railway switchman

• • Pilot

• Salesman

What color hair does the Prince have?

• • 
    Brown

• He’s bald

• Red

• Blonde

Who were the prototypes of the main characters of fairy tale – the Prince and the pilot, who landed the plane in the desert?

• Exupery in his childhood, adult Exupery

• Brother of Exupery, adult Exupery

• Exupery in his childhood, father of Exupery

What picture impressed small Antoine so much that he decided to paint his own drawing?

• A big snake – boa, was swallowing a beast

• A big snake- boa, was swallowing an elephant

• A sleeping boa which was digesting a whole swallowed rave