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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does the mole say that love will bring the boy?
(a) To his friends.
(b) To himself.
(c) Home.
(d) Heaven.
2. What does the fox threaten to do?
(a) Follow the boy home.
(b) Chase the mole away from the boy.
(c) Steal food.
(d) Kill the mole.
3. What kind of a school does the boy wonder about?
(a) A school for animals.
(b) A school for love.
(c) A school of unlearning.
(d) A school for kindness.
4. Which animal does the boy meet second?
(a) The horse.
(b) The fox.
(c) The mole.
(d) The bird.
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.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who rescues the fox?
2. Which animal does the boy meet first?
3. What does the mole tell the boy about the wild?
4. What does the boy want to be when he grows up?
5. What does the mole say the older moles it knows wish they had focused on?
Short Essay Questions
1. What important ideas are brought up in the conversations between the boy and the mole?
2. Describe the first illustration that is in color.
3. What does the mole first say to the boy, and what does the boy reply?
4. The mole says that it has learned how to be in the present. How does the mole do this?
5. Describe what happens when the boy and the mole meet the fox?
6. When the boy asks the mole what his favorite saying is, what does the mole reply, and why is his reply funny?
7. What three reasons does the mole give for freeing the fox?
8. When the boy and the mole are gazing out over a landscape--hills and grassy fields--what question does the boy ask, and what does the mole answer?
9. What happens when the mole tries to give the boy cake?
10. What sad thing does the boy say that he feels, and how does the mole try to cheer him up?
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