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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) Steal food.
(b) Kill the mole.
(c) Follow the boy home.
(d) Chase the mole away from the boy.

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

3. What happens to the dessert that the mole tries to bring the boy?
(a) The boy does not want it.
(b) The fox steals it.
(c) The mole drops it.
(d) The mole eats it.

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

5. What does the mole say is a great freedom?
(a) Choosing how we react to things.
(b) Making friends with whomever we want.
(c) Measuring ourselves by our own standards.
(d) Eating dessert.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the mole say is the biggest waste of time?

3. What kind of a school does the boy wonder about?

4. What does the mole think that success is?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when the mole tries to give the boy cake?

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

4. Describe the first illustration that is in color.

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

6. When the boy asks the mole what his favorite saying is, what does the mole reply, and why is his reply funny?

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

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

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