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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 - Good Progress.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the cousin in Charlotte's first story do?
(a) Ride on a truck from city to city.
(b) Burrow underground and make a web there.
(c) Catch and eat a fish.
(d) Live in the same web in a house for 53 years.

2. Why is Wilbur saddened by his new friend?
(a) She is mean and teases him.
(b) She doesn't like Fern.
(c) She can't spend very much time with him.
(d) He thinks she is bloodthirsty.

3. Where is Avery at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Upstairs, looking for his slingshot.
(b) Behind the barn, whittling sticks.
(c) By the pond, catching frogs.
(d) In the farmyard, bothering the animals.

4. When Fern is telling her parents about the barn animals, who does Fern say is "us"?
(a) Fern and her parents.
(b) Fern and her aunt and uncle.
(c) Everybody in the barn cellar.
(d) Fern and Avery.

5. How does Mr. Zuckerman get Wilbur to return to the pigpen?
(a) By trapping him in a net.
(b) By reasoning with him.
(c) By chasing him around and around the barn.
(d) By luring him back with a pail full of slops.

Short Answer Questions

1. What recent barnyard event does Fern tell her parents about at the beginning of Chapter 8?

2. What does the goose advise Wilbur to do once the people notice he is free?

3. How does Fern say Wilbur feels about Charlotte?

4. Why is a manure pile a good place to keep a young pig?

5. Under what conditions does Mr. Zuckerman allow Fern to visit Wilbur?

(see the answer key)

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