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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 horse say asking for help is the same as?

2. What does the horse say is sometimes "brave and magnificent" (67)?

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

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

5. What does the mole say is the "greatest illusion" (69)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The pairing of words and images is important in this book. Choose a page on which there are both image and text and write about how the two relate to one another: be sure to explain why the two together communicate more than either one would alone.

Essay Topic 2

Choose a famous quote that seems to you to make a similar point to one of the ideas in this book. Write an essay in which you explain the quote and its relationship to The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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