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

2. Who rescues the fox?
(a) The boy.
(b) The mole.
(c) It rescues itself.
(d) The horse.

3. What kind of a school does the boy wonder about?
(a) A school for love.
(b) A school of unlearning.
(c) A school for kindness.
(d) A school for animals.

4. Which animal does the boy meet second?
(a) The bird.
(b) The fox.
(c) The mole.
(d) The horse.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the mole's first complaint?

3. What does the boy say he sometimes feels?

4. What is the first thing that the boy says to the mole?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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