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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the first thing that the four friends do once they are all together?
2. What is the boy looking at when he asks "Is it the moon?" (70)?
3. What is the boy looking at when he asks how "they" can be so "together and perfect" (68)?
4. What does the boy notice about the fox?
5. What is the mole's reason to keep going?
Short Essay Questions
1. What lesson does the horse teach the boy about strength?
2. The horse asks the other three what their reasons are for keeping going. What do they say?
3. How does the art change when the boy falls into the water?
4. What is funny about the answer to the boy's question about the moon?
5. There are two separate sets of pictures of the four friends playing together. What is different about the second set of images?
6. What does the horse say is the most important thing, and why?
7. What is funny about one of the drawings that is about perfection?
8. When the boy points out that the fox hardly ever talks, what does the fox say, and how does the horse react?
9. When the boy realizes that his friends know all about him, what does he ask and what do they answer?
10. What does the boy say about doing "nothing" with friends, (47), and what causes him to say it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The boy, the fox, the mole, and the horse can each be understood to stand for a particular kind of person. Choose one of them and explain what type of "real world" person they stand for. Give evidence from the story to help your reader understand your ideas.
Essay Topic 2
Choose a famous quote that seems to you to make a similar point to one of the ideas in this book. Write an essay in which you explain the quote and its relationship to The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.
Essay Topic 3
This book has a lot of messages about love. Look back through the book and think about all of the times love is mentioned. Then write an essay in which you explain what this book has to say about love.
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