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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 - A Talk at Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "salutations" mean?
(a) "Greetings."
(b) "Naps."
(c) "Quiet times."
(d) "Best friends."

2. What does Mr. Arable say Fern will see once he agrees to let her raise the baby pig?
(a) How hard it is not to want to eat a pig once it gets big and fat.
(b) What dirty creatures pigs are.
(c) How mean and ornery pigs can be.
(d) What trouble a pig will be.

3. What does the author say Templeton would do if he could get away with it?
(a) Eat all of Wilbur's food.
(b) Steal all the eggs on the farm.
(c) Rip up Charlotte's web.
(d) Kill a gosling.

4. Where does Templeton live?
(a) In a bucket behind the sheep.
(b) In a lair beneath the trough.
(c) In the woodpile behind the barn.
(d) In a hole in the barn's wall.

5. What does Mrs. Arable do when Fern first claims that the animals talk?
(a) Ignores Fern and tells her to stop being silly.
(b) Gazes at her with a queer, worried look.
(c) Gets bored and tells Fern to stop making up stories.
(d) Laughs and asks to hear more.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the owner of the voice Wilbur hears at the end of Chapter 4, when will Wilbur see him/her?

2. When Fern is telling her parents about the barn animals, who does Fern say is "us"?

3. Why does everyone watch Templeton when he first approaches the goose?

4. How does Fern describe Charlotte to her parents?

5. What does the old sheep say happens to young pigs around Christmas time?

(see the answer key)

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