The Little Prince - Chapter 1

Type your FULL NAME here.
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A. Match the word with the definition
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    1
    extremely attractive and impressive
  • 2
    a huge snake
  • 3
    ancient
  • 4
    to think about something carefully for a period of time
  • 5
    having lost hope or confidence
  • 6
    the type of mathematics that deals with the adding, multiplying, etc. of numbers
  • 7
    having or showing good sense or judgment
  • 8
    very close
  • 9
    understanding or thinking clearly
  • 10
    annoying and making you lose patience
  • A.disheartened
  • B.intimately
  • C.tiresome
  • D.boa constrictor
  • E.primeval
  • F.magnificent
  • G.ponder
  • H.arithmetic
  • I.clear-sighted
  • J.sensible
B. Choose the correct answer.
What was the narrator’s dream career when he was young?
painter
pilot
politician
golfer
What job did the narrator end up choosing?
painter
pilot
politician
golfer
What experience made the narrator give up becoming a painter?
He felt discouraged by grown-ups
He felt tiresome to explaining his drawing
Misunderstanding of his drawing by other grown-ups
advice from grown-ups
Where did the inspiration for Drawing Number One come from?
television
a picture
a book
primeval forest
What is Drawing Number One supposed to portray?
A book
a hat
the primeval forest
An elephant inside a boa constrictor
Which subject did the narrator think is useful?
Geography
Grammar
Arithmetic
History
Choose a title that best fits this chapter
My Dream
My Drawings
Boa Constrictors
A Sensible Man
What quality allows the narrator see his drawing differently from other adults?
Imagination
creativity
childhood perspective
unique drawing style
C. TFNG


Choose TRUE if the statement agrees with the information; FALSE if it contradicts it; NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

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The narrator didn’t throw away his drawing number one.

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The narrator has kept his drawing number two since age six.

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The narrator gave up on drawing because he thought geography is more useful.

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The narrator feels lonely because of the generation gap.

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Adults around the narrator think of him as a reasonable man.
1. TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN
2. TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN
3. TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN
4. TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN
5. TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN
D. Summary Completion 
The novel’s narrator says that when he was
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, before he became a pilot, he saw in a book a picture of a
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 devouring a wild animal. In the same book, the narrator read that boa constrictors must hibernate for
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 after swallowing their prey in order to digest it. Fascinated by this information, the narrator drew his first drawing, which he calls
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. The drawing, a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant, But grown-ups were not
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by the picture, because they thought it was supposed to be a
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To explain his drawing to adults, the narrator drew Drawing Number Two, an x-ray view of Drawing Number One that showed the 
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inside the snake. Disturbed by this image, grown-ups advised the narrator to give up drawing and pursue geography, arithmetic, and grammar instead. Realizing that grown-ups would always require things to be explained to them, the narrator decided not to be an
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and became a 
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instead. He admits that the
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he learned did prove to be useful for flying.

The narrator’s opinion of adults

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 improved. Every time he met 
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, he would test him by showing him Drawing Number One. The grown-ups would always think it was a picture of a hat. Consequently, the narrator knew he could talk with the grown-ups only about boring, pragmatic topics like politics and neckties.

1. a picture of a boa constrictor a person of true understanding six years old six months
2. boa constrictor hat mouse elephant
3. six years one year one month six months
4. Drawing Number One Drawing Number Two Drawing Number Three Drawing Number Four
5. surprised shocked frightened calmed
6. boa constrictor hat mouse elephant
7. boa constrictor hat mouse elephant
8. pilot geographer painter politician
9. pilot geographer painter politician
10. history arithmetic grammar geography
11. slowly never did surely
12. a child a young person an adolescent an adult

E. Short Writing

What do you think the reason is for people who can’t identify exactly what Drawing Number One suppose to depict? And why? (Write less than 250 words)
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