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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 does the horse tell the boy is a strength, not a weakness?
2. What does the horse tell the boy is true about everyone?
3. What does the horse tell the fox about being interesting?
4. What advice does the narrator give on the page where the boy, the mole, and the fox sit staring at a crescent moon?
5. What does the boy say he is afraid they will find out about him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What lesson does the horse teach the boy about courage?
2. What is funny about the answer to the boy's question about the moon?
3. When the boy points out that the fox hardly ever talks, what does the fox say, and how does the horse react?
4. What do the mole and the horse teach the boy about perfection?
5. What does the boy say about doing "nothing" with friends, (47), and what causes him to say it?
6. What is funny about one of the drawings that is about perfection?
7. How does the art change when the boy falls into the water?
8. The horse asks the other three what their reasons are for keeping going. What do they say?
9. What does the horse say is the most important thing, and why?
10. When the boy realizes that his friends know all about him, what does he ask and what do they answer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
At first, it seems like the fox has run away--but it returns to save the mole from drowning. Explain how the way the mole treated the fox has affected the fox, and give an example of how this kind of interaction might also happen among people.
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
Why is the mole so obsessed with cake? Write an essay in which you explain the mole's relationship to cake and what you think this is saying about life.
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