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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 happens to the dessert that the mole tries to bring the boy?
2. What does the boy say he sometimes feels?
3. Who is the author of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse?
4. What does the mole think that success is?
5. What does the mole say the older moles it knows wish they had focused on?
Short Essay Questions
1. When the boy asks the mole what his favorite saying is, what does the mole reply, and why is his reply funny?
2. What two things does the mole say about taking care of our own feelings?
3. What happens when the mole tries to give the boy cake?
4. Describe what happens when the boy and the mole are looking at their reflections in the river.
5. Describe what happens when the boy and the mole meet the fox?
6. The mole says that it has learned how to be in the present. How does the mole do this?
7. What does the mole first say to the boy, and what does the boy reply?
8. What sad thing does the boy say that he feels, and how does the mole try to cheer him up?
9. Describe the first illustration that is in color.
10. What important ideas are brought up in the conversations between the boy and the mole?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does "home" mean to the boy, and what does it mean to you?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Think about the art in this book. The drawing styles sometimes change, sometimes there is color and sometimes there is not, and sometimes the lines of the drawings become very heavy. Choose a stylistic change that happens in this book and find the pattern in when it seems to happen. Write an essay that explains the change and what it communicates when it happens.
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