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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 mole say is a great freedom?

2. Whom does the mole say is the hardest person to forgive?

3. Who does the mole tell the boy he should be kind to?

4. What does the boy say he sometimes feels?

5. Who rescues the fox?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. The mole says that it has learned how to be in the present. How does the mole do this?

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

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

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

6. Describe the first illustration that is in color.

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 2

The boy, the fox, the mole, and the horse can each be understood to stand for a particular kind of person. Choose one of them and explain what type of "real world" person they stand for. Give evidence from the story to help your reader understand your ideas.

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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