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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy say he sometimes feels?

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

3. What does the fox threaten to do?

4. Who rescues the mole when it falls in the river?

5. What does the mole think that success is?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the first illustration that is in color.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What sad thing does the boy say that he feels, and how does the mole try to cheer him up?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This book has a lot to say about being afraid. What messages does the book try to communicate about fear, and why do you agree or disagree with these messages?

Essay Topic 2

What does "home" mean to the boy, and what does it mean to you?

Essay Topic 3

When the boy and the mole are looking into the water at their reflections, they notice that although the outside is what shows, everything important happens on the inside. Write an essay that explains this idea and gives examples of how this affect people in "real" life.

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