Q 01/05

On Earth, a three-petalled flower tells the little prince that men are hard to find because they lack what?

A) Petals

B) Leaves

C) Roots

D) Water

Answer · why

C) Roots

Roots: the wind blows them about, she explains, which makes life very hard for them, and she believes only six or seven exist, having once watched a c...

Q 02/05

The little prince arranges to return home on what occasion?

A) His birthday

B) The first full moon

C) The anniversary of his landing

D) The longest night of the year

Answer · why

C) The anniversary of his landing

The anniversary of his landing: on that night his own planet stands right above the spot where he came down a year before, and the narrator realises t...

Q 03/05

In The Little Prince, what did grown-ups think the narrator's first childhood drawing showed?

A) A mountain

B) A loaf of bread

C) A hat

D) A sleeping cat

Answer · why

C) A hat

A hat: it was really a boa constrictor digesting an elephant, and when a second drawing of the inside fared no better, the grown-ups told him to drop ...

Q 04/05

In The Little Prince, where does the narrator's plane come down?

A) The Sahara desert

B) The Andes

C) The Australian outback

D) The Gobi desert

Answer · why

A) The Sahara desert

The Sahara desert: the author knew the setting at first hand, having been lost in the North African desert in 1935, hallucinating and close to death, ...

Q 05/05

What animal does the little prince ask the narrator to draw?

A) A horse

B) A sheep

C) A goat

D) A dog

Answer · why

B) A sheep

A sheep: after three attempts are turned down as too sickly, too horned and too old, the narrator draws a crate and says the sheep is inside, which de...