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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 advice does the narrator give on the page where the boy, the mole, and the fox sit staring at a crescent moon?
(a) Be curious.
(b) Be clever.
(c) Be still.
(d) Be quiet.

2. What does the horse tell the fox about being interesting?
(a) Humor is interesting.
(b) Kindness is interesting.
(c) Weakness is interesting.
(d) Honesty is interesting.

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

4. What does the horse say is sometimes "brave and magnificent" (67)?
(a) Believing the best about others.
(b) Getting up and carrying on.
(c) Keeping going when you are lost.
(d) Helping someone even if they are not your friend.

5. Who does the boy think believes in him more than he believes in himself?
(a) His family.
(b) No one.
(c) His friends.
(d) His teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the horse tell the boy is true about everyone?

2. What is the boy looking at when he asks how "they" can be so "together and perfect" (68)?

3. What does the mole say is better than cake?

4. What color is the horse?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. The horse asks the other three what their reasons are for keeping going. What do they say?

4. What is funny about the answer to the boy's question about the moon?

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

6. What do the mole and the horse teach the boy 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. There are two separate sets of pictures of the four friends playing together. What is different about the second set of images?

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

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

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