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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 color is the horse?
3. What does the mole say is the "greatest illusion" (69)?
4. What does the horse tell the fox about being interesting?
5. What does the horse say asking for help is the same as?
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 does the boy say about doing "nothing" with friends, (47), and what causes him to say it?
3. What do the mole and the horse teach the boy about perfection?
4. How does the art change when the boy falls into the water?
5. When the boy realizes that his friends know all about him, what does he ask and what do they answer?
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. There are two separate sets of pictures of the four friends playing together. What is different about the second set of images?
9. What is funny about one of the drawings that is about perfection?
10. What does the horse say is the most important thing, and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why is this story told in the order that it is told in? Why start with the meeting of the boy and the mole, continue with the fox, and finally have them meet the horse? Explain what each of these sections teaches the boy and why this order supports the overall meaning of the book.
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
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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