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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 secret has the horse been keeping?

2. What advice does the narrator give on the page where the boy, the mole, and the fox sit staring at a crescent moon?

3. What does the horse tell the boy is a strength, not a weakness?

4. What does the horse tell the fox about being interesting?

5. What is the mole's reason to keep going?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is funny about the answer to the boy's question about the moon?

2. How does the art change when the boy falls into the water?

3. What does the horse say is the most important thing, and why?

4. What lesson does the horse teach the boy about strength?

5. What does the boy say about doing "nothing" with friends, (47), and what causes him to say it?

6. What lesson does the horse teach the boy about courage?

7. The horse asks the other three what their reasons are for keeping going. What do they say?

8. When the boy realizes that his friends know all about him, what does he ask and what do they answer?

9. There are two separate sets of pictures of the four friends playing together. What is different about the second set of images?

10. When the boy points out that the fox hardly ever talks, what does the fox say, and how does the horse react?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

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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