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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 for animals.
(b) A school for love.
(c) A school of unlearning.
(d) A school for kindness.

2. What is the first thing that the boy says to the mole?
(a) Can you help me?
(b) Hello.
(c) Who are you?
(d) Please move.

3. What does the mole say the older moles it knows wish they had focused on?
(a) Making friends.
(b) Traveling.
(c) Being successful.
(d) Their dreams.

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

5. What does the boy want to be when he grows up?
(a) Kind.
(b) Smart.
(c) Funny.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the fox threaten to do?

2. 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?

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

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

5. What happens to the dessert that the mole tries to bring the boy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the first illustration that is in color.

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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