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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 boy say he is afraid they will find out about him?

2. What does the horse say asking for help is the same as?

3. What is the first thing that the four friends do once they are all together?

4. When the friends tell the horse that they believe its story, what happens?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

On page 13, the boy wonders about a "school of unlearning." What does this mean, and what things do you think most people would be happier if they "unlearned"?

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

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.

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