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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 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) Watching the fox.
(c) Looking at their reflections in water.
(d) Walking through the forest.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mole think that success is?

2. What does the mole say the older moles it knows wish they had focused on?

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

4. Who rescues the mole when it falls in the river?

5. What problem does the fox have when the boy meets it?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What two things does the mole say about taking care of our own feelings?

3. Describe the first illustration that is in color.

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

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

6. What does the mole first say to the boy, and what does the boy reply?

7. 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?

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

9. What three reasons does the mole give for freeing the fox?

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

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