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

2. Where do the mole and the boy often sit and talk?
(a) In a tree.
(b) On the road.
(c) In a field of sheep.
(d) In their fort.

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

4. After it is rescued, what does the fox draw in the snow?
(a) A heart.
(b) Its name.
(c) A child.
(d) An arrow.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the mole say that love will bring the boy?

3. What does the mole say is a great freedom?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the first illustration that is in color.

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

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