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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 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?
2. Who is the author of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse?
3. What does the mole think that success is?
4. Which animal does the boy meet first?
5. Where do the mole and the boy often sit and talk?
Short Essay Questions
1. What important ideas are brought up in the conversations between the boy and the mole?
2. The mole says that it has learned how to be in the present. How does the mole do this?
3. Describe what happens when the boy and the mole meet the fox?
4. 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?
5. What does the mole first say to the boy, and what does the boy reply?
6. What two things does the mole say about taking care of our own feelings?
7. What happens when the mole tries to give the boy cake?
8. Describe what happens when the boy and the mole are looking at their reflections in the river.
9. When the boy asks the mole what his favorite saying is, what does the mole reply, and why is his reply funny?
10. What three reasons does the mole give for freeing the fox?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
On page 13, the boy wonders about a "school of unlearning." What does this mean, and what things do you think most people would be happier if they "unlearned"?
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
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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