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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 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.

2. What happens to the dessert that the mole tries to bring the boy?
(a) The mole drops it.
(b) The boy does not want it.
(c) The mole eats it.
(d) The fox steals it.

3. Who does the mole tell the boy he should be kind to?
(a) The horse.
(b) Himself.
(c) The bird.
(d) The fox.

4. What does the mole say is a great freedom?
(a) Making friends with whomever we want.
(b) Choosing how we react to things.
(c) Measuring ourselves by our own standards.
(d) Eating dessert.

5. What does the fox threaten to do?
(a) Chase the mole away from the boy.
(b) Kill the mole.
(c) Follow the boy home.
(d) Steal food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the mole say is the hardest person to forgive?

2. Where do the mole and the boy often sit and talk?

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

4. Who rescues the fox?

5. What is the first thing that the boy says to the mole?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the first illustration that is in color.

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

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

5. What does the mole first say to the boy, and what does the boy reply?

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

7. Describe what happens when the boy and the mole meet the fox?

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

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

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

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