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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does the mole say is a great freedom?
(a) Choosing how we react to things.
(b) Eating dessert.
(c) Measuring ourselves by our own standards.
(d) Making friends with whomever we want.

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

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

9. For what purpose does the mole close its eyes and breathe?
(a) To focus on its sense of hearing.
(b) To calm itself down.
(c) To think about what to say.
(d) To focus on the present moment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mole tell the boy about the wild?

2. 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?

3. What happens to the dessert that the mole tries to bring the boy?

4. What dessert is the mole obsessed with?

5. Which animal does the boy meet first?

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