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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the mole and the boy doing when they talk about how strange it is that we can only see the outside but most things happen on the inside?
(a) Looking into a mirror.
(b) Watching the fox.
(c) Looking at their reflections in water.
(d) Walking through the forest.

2. Who rescues the fox?
(a) The boy.
(b) It rescues itself.
(c) The mole.
(d) The horse.

3. What does the mole say the older moles it knows wish they had focused on?
(a) Being successful.
(b) Traveling.
(c) Their dreams.
(d) Making friends.

4. After it is rescued, what does the fox draw in the snow?
(a) A heart.
(b) A child.
(c) Its name.
(d) An arrow.

5. What does the mole say is the biggest waste of time?
(a) Comparing yourself to others.
(b) Work.
(c) School.
(d) Worrying about whether people love you.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of a school does the boy wonder about?

2. Who is the author of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse?

3. What happens to the dessert that the mole tries to bring the boy?

4. What does the boy want to be when he grows up?

5. Who does the mole tell the boy he should be kind to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the first illustration that is in color.

2. When the boy asks the mole what his favorite saying is, what does the mole reply, and why is his reply funny?

3. When the boy and the mole are gazing out over a landscape--hills and grassy fields--what question does the boy ask, and what does the mole answer?

4. Describe what happens when the boy and the mole are looking at their reflections in the river.

5. What sad thing does the boy say that he feels, and how does the mole try to cheer him up?

6. What important ideas are brought up in the conversations between the boy and the mole?

7. What two things does the mole say about taking care of our own feelings?

8. The mole says that it has learned how to be in the present. How does the mole do this?

9. What three reasons does the mole give for freeing the fox?

10. What happens when the mole tries to give the boy cake?

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