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

2. What secret has the horse been keeping?

3. What color is the horse?

4. What does the boy notice about the fox?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This book has a lot of messages about love. Look back through the book and think about all of the times love is mentioned. Then write an essay in which you explain what this book has to say about love.

Essay Topic 3

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

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