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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is the author of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse?
(a) Gene Yang.
(b) Scott Morse.
(c) Charlie Mackesy.
(d) James Burks.

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

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

6. What kind of a school does the boy wonder about?
(a) A school for love.
(b) A school of unlearning.
(c) A school for animals.
(d) A school for kindness.

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

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

9. Who rescues the mole when it falls in the river?
(a) The bird.
(b) The boy.
(c) The horse.
(d) The fox.

10. What does the boy want to be when he grows up?
(a) Smart.
(b) Funny.
(c) Happy.
(d) Kind.

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

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

13. Where does the mole say that love will bring the boy?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Home.
(c) To his friends.
(d) To himself.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mole say is a great freedom?

2. What is the mole's first complaint?

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?

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

5. What dessert is the mole obsessed with?

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