Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Chapters 1-9

Reading Check

1. How do the adults react when the narrator shows them his picture book?

2. How does the pilot figure out the prince is from another planet?

3. What does the prince do for amusement on his home planet?

4. Why does the prince get agitated when the pilot refuses to answer his questions about thorny flowers?

Multiple Choice

1. What does the narrator grow up to be?

A) an artist

B) a botanist

C) a pilot

D) a lawyer

2. Why were people hesitant to believe the astronomer who discovered B-612?

A) He was Turkish and dressed in non-Western clothes.

B) He was Turkish and believed in Islam.

C) He was Turkish and spoke with a strange accent.

D) He was Turkish and didn’t go to school in Britain.

3. What makes the baobabs bad plants?

A) They are poisonous.

B) They can break planets.

C) They attract pests.

D) They infest homes.

4. Why did the prince leave his home planet?

A) The prince is on a mission to colonize other planets.

B) The prince was bored and needed an adventure.

C) The prince wanted to get away from the flower.

D) The prince is searching for the flower.