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

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

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

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

5. What dessert is the mole obsessed with?
(a) Cookies.
(b) Cake.
(c) Pie.
(d) Brownies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does the mole say is the hardest person to forgive?

3. After it is rescued, what does the fox draw in the snow?

4. What is the mole's first complaint?

5. Who is the author of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happens when the boy and the mole are looking at their reflections in the river.

2. Describe the first illustration that is in color.

3. 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?

4. The mole says that it has learned how to be in the present. How does the mole do this?

5. What three reasons does the mole give for freeing 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 happens when the mole tries to give the boy cake?

8. What sad thing does the boy say that he feels, and how does the mole try to cheer him up?

9. Describe what happens when the boy and the mole meet the fox?

10. What important ideas are brought up in the conversations between the boy and the mole?

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