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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the horse tell the boy is a strength, not a weakness?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Anger.
(c) Pride.
(d) Tears.

2. What does the horse tell the fox about being interesting?
(a) Humor is interesting.
(b) Kindness is interesting.
(c) Weakness is interesting.
(d) Honesty is interesting.

3. What advice does the narrator give on the page where the boy, the mole, and the fox sit staring at a crescent moon?
(a) Be quiet.
(b) Be still.
(c) Be clever.
(d) Be curious.

4. What does the horse say is behind most good things?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Love.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Happiness.

5. What is the fox's reason to keep going?
(a) His friends.
(b) He does not have a choice.
(c) Getting home.
(d) Cake.

6. What is the mole's reason to keep going?
(a) He does not have a choice.
(b) Cake.
(c) His friends.
(d) Getting home.

7. What is the boy's reason to keep going?
(a) He does not have a choice.
(b) Cake.
(c) Getting home.
(d) His friends.

8. What does the horse say is the bravest thing it has ever said?
(a) Goodbye.
(b) No.
(c) Help.
(d) Hello.

9. Who does the boy think believes in him more than he believes in himself?
(a) His friends.
(b) His teachers.
(c) No one.
(d) His family.

10. What does the horse say is sometimes "brave and magnificent" (67)?
(a) Helping someone even if they are not your friend.
(b) Getting up and carrying on.
(c) Keeping going when you are lost.
(d) Believing the best about others.

11. What does the horse tell the boy is true about everyone?
(a) They are a little sad.
(b) They are a little lost.
(c) They are a little angry.
(d) They are a little scared.

12. What accident happened to one of the drawings in the book?
(a) The author's dog walked over it.
(b) The author lost it.
(c) It was put in the wrong place in the book.
(d) The author accidentally drew a piglet instead of a mole.

13. What color is the horse?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) White.

14. What secret has the horse been keeping?
(a) It is really a zebra.
(b) It was not an accident that they met.
(c) It can fly.
(d) It can become invisible.

15. What does the horse say asking for help is the same as?
(a) Refusing to give up.
(b) Giving up.
(c) Taking responsibility.
(d) Refusing to take responsibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which animal does the boy meet third?

2. When does the horse say it has been the strongest?

3. What is the boy looking at when he asks how "they" can be so "together and perfect" (68)?

4. What is the boy looking at when he asks "Is it the moon?" (70)?

5. When the friends tell the horse that they believe its story, what happens?

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