CASASOS, CARMELA MAE A.
BSA 2F
MS. VICTORIA GODINEZ
MAY 27, 2022
GREAT BOOKS
FINAL EXAMINATION
1.
Aside from the Little Prince, name two more characters that you find
interesting. Explain your choices.
The other two characters that I find interesting in the story of “The Little Prince”
are definitely the fox and the narrator. As I was reading the novel, I noticed the
contrasting roles of the two, and yet they both play important parts in Little Prince’s
journey. While the fox took the role of an instructor, the narrator was more similar to a
pupil that learned through his friendship with the little prince. My reason for choosing the
fox is because of its wisdom, and even with such a short amount of time, we had
learned meaningful lessons and insights about relationships, uniqueness, and
responsibilities. The fox reminded me that even though time feels even faster after
becoming an adult, we should learn how to have patience in forming relationships with
others, and that we must still approach those we are forming our bonds with
tenderness. Another character that I thought was interesting is the narrator who is also
a pilot that crashed in the Sahara Desert and met the Little Prince. What striked me the
whole time was their child-like view of the world despite their age. His stories about the
Little Prince are already enough to make you feel wary about interacting with him, and it
made me realize how much we have been robbed off of our ability to explore our
imaginations once in a while because they are deemed “childish” by our society. These
two characters, they’re different from each other, but somehow, they’ve imparted to us a
lot of lessons, directly and indirectly, that we tend to forget as we go through with life.
2.
Choose two quotations from the novelle. Identify the context in which each
quote was given, i.e. speaker, who is being spoken to in an
incident/event/situation. Explain and then react to the quote.
Quote 1: “Only the children know what they are looking for.”
This is a line that was said by the little prince when talking to a railway switchman
when the former asked the latter what the train passengers are pursuing, to
which the latter said that they are pursuing nothing. For me, this one really struck
a cord because I am someone who’s currently transitioning to adulthood.
Everyday, I understand why adults barely describe themselves feeling truly alive,
and it’s because they are constantly faced with problems that even they don’t
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MAY 27, 2022
know the solutions to. The responsibilities they have as adults are far heavier
than those we have as a child, and so when the prince said this line, it stuck. Yes,
the passengers do have a destination to go to, but the children are the ones who
innocently, yet bravely, experience the actual journey in hopes of finding theirs.
The adults simply let the train take them where exactly they have to be.
Quote 2: “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so
important.”
This line was said by the fox to the Little Prince when the former was telling the
latter a lesson about taming. In this scene, the fox was telling the Little prince of
the importance of having patience when one wants to form a friendship with
others, and that the mere act of patience and persistence, is what makes the
relationship unique from others. When we take the time to truly understand
others, and when we take time to nourish the relationship we have with these
people, is when the value forms in both the person and the relationship.
3.
Construct a 15-item objective test based on the novelle. You may use a fill
in the blanks, multiple choice or True-False type of questions. Answers
should be placed in parentheses after each item.
3.1.
3.2.
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3.4.
3.5.
3.6.
3.7.
3.8.
3.9.
Among the characters the little prince met on his journey to different
planets, it is only the lamplighter that he thinks he could befriend. (TRUE)
The drawing the pilot created was about a boa constrictor digesting an
eggplant. (FALSE)
It is the fox that said the line “the most beautiful things in the world cannot
be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” (TRUE)
The planet in which the little prince came from is called B1920. (FALSE)
When the turkish astronomer first presented his discovery to the
International Astronomical Congress, the people immediately accepted his
report. (FALSE)
The narrator, who is a pilot, had an accident with his plane in the Sahara
Desert. (TRUE)
The Earth is the fourth planet the Little Prince visited. (FALSE)
“Only the _______ know what they are looking for.” (CHILDREN)
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a _______...”
(WELL)
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3.10.
3.11.
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3.15.
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“_______ people never hear anything but praise.” (CONCEITED)
“You are forever responsible for what you have _______.” (TAMED)
“It is such a mysterious place, the land of _______.” (TEARS)
“What is _______ is invisible to the eye.” (ESSENTIAL)
- 3.15. “Well, I must endure the presence of a few _______…
(CATERPILLARS)
…if I wish to become acquainted with the _______.” (BUTTERFLIES)