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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 tell the boy is a strength, not a weakness?

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

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

4. What color is the horse?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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