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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which animal does the boy meet second?

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

3. Which animal does the boy meet first?

4. What does the boy want to be when he grows up?

5. What is the mole's first complaint?

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