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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. After it is rescued, what does the fox draw in the snow?

2. What are the mole and the boy doing when they talk about how strange it is that we can only see the outside but most things happen on the inside?

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

4. What does the boy want to be when he grows up?

5. What does the boy say he sometimes feels?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the mole tries to give the boy cake?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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

This book has a lot of messages about love. Look back through the book and think about all of the times love is mentioned. Then write an essay in which you explain what this book has to say about love.

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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