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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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) Looking into a mirror.
(c) Watching the fox.
(d) Walking through the forest.

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

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

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

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

15. What problem does the fox have when the boy meets it?
(a) It is hungry.
(b) It is caught in a trap.
(c) It is lonely.
(d) It has fallen in the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mole say is the biggest waste of time?

2. Which animal does the boy meet first?

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

4. What is the mole's first complaint?

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

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