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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 better than cake?

2. When does the horse say it has been the strongest?

3. Who does the boy think believes in him more than he believes in himself?

4. What does the horse tell the boy is true about everyone?

5. When the friends tell the horse that they believe its story, what happens?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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