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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Fern feed her new pet?
(a) With warm milk from a baby's nursing bottle.
(b) With cold milk from a bowl.
(c) With a handful of slops from breakfast.
(d) Fern's mother feeds the pet.

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

3. What is Wilbur particularly glad Charlotte does before eating a victim?
(a) Warn Wilbur so he can look away.
(b) Put the victim to sleep.
(c) Make sure the victim is a bad insect.
(d) Apologize to the victim.

4. Why does everyone watch Templeton when he first approaches the goose?
(a) They are waiting for him to do something funny.
(b) He is yelling for them to watch him.
(c) He is not well liked or trusted.
(d) They are afraid the goose will hurt Templeton.

5. What reason does Mr. Arable give for why Fern gets to keep a pig?
(a) He has been promising to give her a pet for a long time.
(b) She was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of an injustice.
(c) It is time for her to help out around the household.
(d) Mr. Arable is trying to teach her a lesson about responsibility.

6. What are Fern and her parents doing at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Picking berries from the garden together.
(b) Cooking Saturday night dinner together.
(c) Cleaning the house together.
(d) Having Sunday breakfast together.

7. Why can't the goose play with Wilbur?
(a) She must sit on her eggs to keep them warm.
(b) She is busy eating lunch.
(c) She is busy looking after her goslings.
(d) She does not like to associate with pigs.

8. What does the oldest sheep say is the quickest way to ruin a friendship?
(a) Hang around your new friend all the time.
(b) Keep borrowing things and not returning them.
(c) Ask for too many favors.
(d) Wake somebody in the morning before he is ready.

9. What does Charlotte do when Templeton takes the last egg away?
(a) She asks if she can have an egg next time.
(b) She laughs and says "A rat is a rat."
(c) She frowns and says, "No good will come of this."
(d) She warns the rest of the animals to watch their things.

10. Why does Fern miss Wilbur's noontime feeding?
(a) She must do her other chores then.
(b) She is busy playing with friends.
(c) She is away at school.
(d) She is running errands for her mother.

11. Why does Fern worry about Wilbur when her father first moves him outside?
(a) She thinks he will be lonely.
(b) She thinks he will be cold at night.
(c) She thinks he will run away.
(d) She thinks other animals will bother him.

12. At the beginning of Chapter 7, how does Charlotte's campaign against insects seem to Wilbur?
(a) Mean and spiteful.
(b) Sensible and useful.
(c) Silly and misguided.
(d) Bloodthirsty and disgusting.

13. Why does the goose say the last egg didn't hatch?
(a) She didn't keep it warm enough.
(b) It's a dud.
(c) The last egg wasn't a goose egg after all.
(d) Templeton touched it.

14. Which of the following is not a reason the lamb gives for not playing with Wilbur?
(a) The lamb can't get into Wilbur's pen.
(b) The lamb doesn't play with pigs.
(c) The lamb is already busy playing with a calf.
(d) The lamb is not interested in pigs.

15. What damage does Wilbur cause outside his fence?
(a) He plows up some ground with his nose.
(b) He scares a flock of chickens.
(c) He eats a bunch of crops.
(d) He pulls Mrs. Zuckerman's hanging laundry into a mud puddle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Avery think of Fern's new pet pig?

3. In which season was Wilbur born?

4. How does the author describe a spider's web at the beginning of Chapter 9?

5. Where is Avery at the beginning of Chapter 8?

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