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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. Who is the author of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse?
2. What happens to the dessert that the mole tries to bring the boy?
3. What dessert is the mole obsessed with?
4. Which animal does the boy meet second?
5. Where do the mole and the boy often sit and talk?
Short Essay Questions
1. What two things does the mole say about taking care of our own feelings?
2. What happens when the mole tries to give the boy cake?
3. The mole says that it has learned how to be in the present. How does the mole do this?
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 three reasons does the mole give for freeing the fox?
7. What sad thing does the boy say that he feels, and how does the mole try to cheer him up?
8. Describe the first illustration that is in color.
9. Describe what happens when the boy and the mole are looking at their reflections in the river.
10. When the boy asks the mole what his favorite saying is, what does the mole reply, and why is his reply funny?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why is the mole so obsessed with cake? Write an essay in which you explain the mole's relationship to cake and what you think this is saying about life.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
At first, it seems like the fox has run away--but it returns to save the mole from drowning. Explain how the way the mole treated the fox has affected the fox, and give an example of how this kind of interaction might also happen among people.
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