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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 is the boy looking at when he asks "Is it the moon?" (70)?

2. What does the horse say is the bravest thing it has ever said?

3. What accident happened to one of the drawings in the book?

4. What does the boy notice about the fox?

5. What is the boy looking at when he asks how "they" can be so "together and perfect" (68)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do the mole and the horse teach the boy about perfection?

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

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

6. What is funny about one of the drawings that is about perfection?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

At first, it seems like the fox has run away--but it returns to save the mole from drowning. Explain how the way the mole treated the fox has affected the fox, and give an example of how this kind of interaction might also happen among people.

Essay Topic 3

An important motif (pattern) in this book is the idea of being lost and of finding things--friends, love, home, etc. Do you think that being lost is an important part of "finding"? Explain the relationship between these ideas in the book and then explain why you agree or disagree.

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