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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. Which animal does the boy meet first?

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

4. What does the mole say is the biggest waste of time?

5. What does the fox threaten to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. Describe the first illustration that is in color.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

This book shows that things that seem small can be big in their importance, that strength can be confused for weakness, and that sometimes people who seem angry and scary are actually nice people who are just hurting. Explain how the book uses contradictions like these to create a larger message about life.

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