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The Happy Prince and Other Tales
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| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| Who wrote "The Happy Prince and Other Tales"? | Oscar Wilde |
| Who illustrated the book? | Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood |
| Name the five stories in this book. | The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, The Remarkable Rocket |
| What is the Happy Prince? | A tall statue standing on a column high above a city, covered in gold leaf with sapphire eyes and a ruby on his sword-hilt |
| Why do people admire the Happy Prince statue? | They think he looks beautiful, like an angel, and seems perfectly happy |
| Why did the little Swallow stay behind when his friends flew to Egypt? | He was in love with a beautiful Reed and stayed to court her all summer |
| Why did the Swallow finally leave the Reed? | He decided she was a flirt with no conversation and too attached to her home, so he left for the Pyramids |
| Where did the Swallow decide to spend the night in the city? | Between the feet of the Happy Prince's statue |
| Why is the Happy Prince crying? | Now that he is set up high on the column, he can see all the ugliness and misery of the city, and it makes him weep even though his heart is made of lead |
| What was the Prince's life like when he was alive? | He lived happily in the Palace of Sans-Souci, where sorrow was never allowed to enter, and he never knew what lay beyond the palace walls |
| Who does the Prince first ask the Swallow to help? | A poor seamstress and her sick little boy, who has a fever and is asking for oranges |
| What does the Swallow bring to the seamstress's house? | The ruby from the Prince's sword-hilt |
| What happened after the Swallow fanned the sick boy with his wings? | The boy felt cool and began to feel better, sinking into a peaceful sleep |
| Why did the Swallow agree to stay another night? | The Prince told him about a poor young playwright who was cold, hungry, and too weak to finish writing his play |
| What did the Prince offer to help the young playwright? | One of his sapphire eyes, since he had already given away his ruby |
| What lesson does the Swallow learn about doing good deeds? | Even though it was cold, helping others made him feel warm inside because he had done a good action |
| Who mistakenly calls the Swallow a "remarkable phenomenon"? | The Professor of Ornithology, who writes a confusing letter about seeing a swallow in winter |
| Where did the Swallow's friends go for the winter? | Egypt, where they planned to visit the Nile, the tomb of a great King, and the Second Cataract |
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