The Little Prince Book Quiz
Eight multiple-choice questions on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince (1943) — plot, characters and the moments everyone quotes. Two minutes, instant score, every answer explained below. For the full mixed-classics version, take the original book quiz — 15 questions across the whole canon.
All 8 questions and answers
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- Why is the narrator in the desert? — His plane has crashed and he is repairing it. Engine trouble in the Sahara, a thousand miles from help — and at daybreak a small voice asking him to draw a sheep.
- What was Drawing Number One, which adults mistook for a hat? — A boa constrictor digesting an elephant. The narrator gave up art at six because grown-ups needed everything explained.
- Where does the little prince come from? — Asteroid B-612. An asteroid scarcely bigger than a house, three volcanoes and a rose included.
- What is the prince's treasured possession on his planet? — A rose. Beautiful, demanding, a little vain — and worth all the trouble in the world.
- Which grown-up on the prince's journey does he alone find tolerable? — The lamplighter. The king is absurd, the businessman counts stars he owns — but the lamplighter thinks of something besides himself.
- What does the fox ask the prince to do? — Tame him. 'If you tame me, then we shall need each other' — ties are made, not found.
- What is the fox's parting secret? — One sees clearly only with the heart; what is essential is invisible to the eye. The line the whole book was built to deliver — and the reason it survives translation into everything.
- How does the prince return to his planet? — The snake bites him and he falls gently. He has a body too heavy to carry; the snake's bite is the arrangement, and the pilot guards the spot after.
About The Little Prince
A pilot stranded in the Sahara meets a small golden-haired boy from an asteroid the size of a house, who tells of his vain and beloved rose, his journey past six very odd grown-ups, and the fox who taught him to see with his heart. A children's book that reads differently — and harder — every decade of your life. The novel runs about 15,000 words (roughly 85 pages in a standard paperback) — about 1 hour and 3 minutes of reading at an average pace. Before you commit, see the full breakdown in how long it takes to read The Little Prince or calculate reading time for any other book.
Easy — a one-sitting fable; the sentences are simple and the ideas are not. If you get 6 or more of the eight questions right, the book clearly stuck.
What this quiz covers
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince sits in our epic, adventure & fantasy shelf, and the eight questions follow the book the way a reader experiences it: how the story opens, the turn in the middle, the characters who carry it, and the ending people still argue about. You will not be asked for page numbers or publication trivia — but three or four questions are built to separate people who read the book from people who read a summary. If a question stumps you, that gap is your reading list talking.
Fair warning for the ambitious: readers who clear this quiz often move straight to the reading-time breakdown for The Little Prince to plan the reread, then test the rest of their shelf against the mixed classic literature quiz.
More book quizzes
The Odyssey quiz, Moby-Dick quiz, Don Quixote quiz, Alice in Wonderland quiz, 1984 quiz, Animal Farm quiz, Brave New World quiz — or browse every book quiz on the site. For scale, The Little Prince is the 133rd longest of the 133 classics timed here — the longest of the shelf.
Doing the whole author? Our Antoine de Saint-Exupéry books in order guide lists every book with the best entry point.
Frequently asked questions
How many questions are in the Little Prince quiz?
Eight multiple-choice questions covering Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's plot, characters and most famous moments. The quiz takes about two minutes and your score is instant.
Is the Little Prince book quiz free?
Yes — no signup, no email, nothing to install. Answer the eight questions and get your score immediately.
What score should I aim for?
8/8 means you know the book cold; 6+ is a solid score. Below 4, the book is calling you back for a reread.
Is the Little Prince quiz hard?
Easy — a one-sitting fable; the sentences are simple and the ideas are not. The questions themselves stick to famous, load-bearing moments — the scenes and lines the book is remembered for — so a genuine read usually scores 6+.
How long is the Little Prince reading itself?
About 15,000 words — roughly 85 pages, or about 1 hour and 3 minutes at an average pace. The full pace breakdown is in how long it takes to read The Little Prince. It runs 27 chapters, averaging 555 words each; see the book-count guide for its full structure.