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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 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.

2. Who is the author of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse?
(a) Gene Yang.
(b) Scott Morse.
(c) Charlie Mackesy.
(d) James Burks.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the mole think that success is?

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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. Describe the first illustration that is in color.

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