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

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

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

4. What does the boy say he sometimes feels?
(a) Lost.
(b) Boring.
(c) Scared.
(d) Small.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What dessert is the mole obsessed with?

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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