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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the mole and the boy often sit and talk?
(a) On the road.
(b) In their fort.
(c) In a field of sheep.
(d) In a tree.

2. What is the first thing that the boy says to the mole?
(a) Hello.
(b) Can you help me?
(c) Who are you?
(d) Please move.

3. 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 at their reflections in water.
(b) Walking through the forest.
(c) Watching the fox.
(d) Looking into a mirror.

4. Which animal does the boy meet second?
(a) The bird.
(b) The mole.
(c) The fox.
(d) The horse.

5. What does the mole tell the boy about the wild?
(a) Not to fear it.
(b) That for some animals it is home.
(c) That it is a good place to get lost.
(d) To stay away from it.

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

7. What does the mole think that success is?
(a) Money.
(b) To be happy.
(c) To love.
(d) Education.

8. Which animal does the boy meet first?
(a) The mole.
(b) The bird.
(c) The fox.
(d) The horse.

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

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

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

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

13. What is the mole's first complaint?
(a) That it is hungry.
(b) That the boy is too loud.
(c) That it cannot see very well.
(d) That it is small.

14. Whom does the mole say is the hardest person to forgive?
(a) Yourself.
(b) Your enemy.
(c) A person who will not apologize.
(d) Someone you love.

15. What does the boy say he sometimes feels?
(a) Boring.
(b) Lost.
(c) Small.
(d) Scared.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem does the fox have when the boy meets it?

2. What dessert is the mole obsessed with?

3. Who rescues the mole when it falls in the river?

4. For what purpose does the mole close its eyes and breathe?

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

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