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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 dessert is the mole obsessed with?
(a) Pie.
(b) Cookies.
(c) Cake.
(d) Brownies.
2. What does the fox threaten to do?
(a) Follow the boy home.
(b) Kill the mole.
(c) Steal food.
(d) Chase the mole away from the boy.
3. For what purpose does the mole close its eyes and breathe?
(a) To focus on the present moment.
(b) To calm itself down.
(c) To think about what to say.
(d) To focus on its sense of hearing.
4. 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) Walking through the forest.
(b) Watching the fox.
(c) Looking at their reflections in water.
(d) Looking into a mirror.
5. What does the boy say he sometimes feels?
(a) Boring.
(b) Scared.
(c) Small.
(d) Lost.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who rescues the mole when it falls in the river?
2. After it is rescued, what does the fox draw in the snow?
3. What does the mole say the older moles it knows wish they had focused on?
4. What is the mole's first complaint?
5. What happens to the dessert that the mole tries to bring the boy?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe what happens when the boy and the mole meet the fox?
2. When the boy asks the mole what his favorite saying is, what does the mole reply, and why is his reply funny?
3. What does the mole first say to the boy, and what does the boy reply?
4. What sad thing does the boy say that he feels, and how does the mole try to cheer him up?
5. What three reasons does the mole give for freeing the fox?
6. 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?
7. Describe the first illustration that is in color.
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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