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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 asking for help is the same as?

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

4. What does the mole say is better than cake?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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.

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