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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 horse tell the boy is a strength, not a weakness?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Anger.
(c) Pride.
(d) Tears.

2. What is the fox's reason to keep going?
(a) Getting home.
(b) He does not have a choice.
(c) Cake.
(d) His friends.

3. What does the horse say is the bravest thing it has ever said?
(a) Help.
(b) Goodbye.
(c) No.
(d) Hello.

4. What is the boy's reason to keep going?
(a) Getting home.
(b) His friends.
(c) Cake.
(d) He does not have a choice.

5. What does the horse say is behind most good things?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the horse say it has been the strongest?

2. Which animal does the boy meet third?

3. Who does the boy think believes in him more than he believes in himself?

4. What does the horse say asking for help is the same as?

5. What advice does the narrator give on the page where the boy, the mole, and the fox sit staring at a crescent moon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What lesson does the horse teach the boy about strength?

2. What does the boy say about doing "nothing" with friends, (47), and what causes him to say it?

3. When the boy realizes that his friends know all about him, what does he ask and what do they answer?

4. There are two separate sets of pictures of the four friends playing together. What is different about the second set of images?

5. How does the art change when the boy falls into the water?

6. What is funny about one of the drawings that is about perfection?

7. When the boy points out that the fox hardly ever talks, what does the fox say, and how does the horse react?

8. What lesson does the horse teach the boy about courage?

9. What do the mole and the horse teach the boy about perfection?

10. What does the horse say is the most important thing, and why?

(see the answer keys)

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