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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mr. Arable, the Fair is a good place to start doing what?
(a) Selling pigs.
(b) Eating junk food.
(c) Staying close to your parents.
(d) Growing up.

2. In what does Fern's mother get interested in spite of herself?
(a) Fern and Avery's plans for building a new swing.
(b) The story about Charlotte's cousin.
(c) Fern's explanation for how to take care of baby goslings.
(d) Watching Fern knit a sweater for Wilbur.

3. What do most of Charlotte's children do after they hatch?
(a) Make balloons and float away on the wind.
(b) Follow Wilbur around everywhere he goes.
(c) Start spinning webs in all of the corners of the barn.
(d) Beg Templeton to collect words for them to write.

4. What does Templeton do to help Wilbur during the awarding of Wilbur's prize?
(a) He scares Uncle into running off.
(b) He bites Wilbur's tail to wake him up when he faints.
(c) He gathers one last piece of writing for Charlotte to copy in her web.
(d) He brings Wilbur some food when the Zuckermans forget to feed him.

5. What was the greatest moment in Mr. Zuckerman's life?
(a) Meeting Mrs. Zuckerman.
(b) Selling a pig for a lot of money.
(c) Retiring and selling his farm to someone else.
(d) Winning a prize for Wilbur.

6. What is Charlotte's magnum opus?
(a) Her web.
(b) Her egg sac.
(c) Her abdomen.
(d) Her lower leg joints.

7. At the end of the book, what does Fern claim is the most fun there is?
(a) When she and Henry are stopped at the top of the Ferris wheel.
(b) When she is sitting on a milk stool in the barn and listening to the animals.
(c) When all the new baby animals are born each year.
(d) When Wilbur is winning prizes at the County Fair.

8. What does the gander do that irritates Charlotte when she calls a meeting?
(a) Repeats words.
(b) Refuses to show up on time.
(c) Keeps interrupting her.
(d) Tries to run the meeting himself.

9. What happens in Wilbur's bad dream?
(a) Templeton takes all of his food.
(b) Fern moves away.
(c) Charlotte dies.
(d) Men come to get him with knives and guns.

10. Why must Charlotte stay behind in her web, rather than accompanying Wilbur in Chapter 15?
(a) Someone must keep an eye on Templeton.
(b) Charlotte is afraid to leave her web.
(c) It is time for her to lay an egg sac and fill it with eggs.
(d) The goose needs help with her new nest full of eggs.

11. What does the old sheep tell Templeton after seeing what has happened to Templeton since Wilbur kept his promise to the rat?
(a) That soon he will be too fat to move.
(b) That he would have more friends if he helped others more.
(c) That he would live longer if he ate less.
(d) That the only reason he can stay at the farm is because Wilbur likes him.

12. What does Dr. Dorian find just as miraculous as the writing in Charlotte's web?
(a) How well the geese on the Zuckermans' farm speak.
(b) How children grow up so quickly.
(c) How spiders learned to spin webs in the first place.
(d) How talented a pig Wilbur is.

13. Which of the following is not a name Wilbur gives to one of Charlotte's children?
(a) The name Aranea.
(b) The name Nellie.
(c) The name Chloris.
(d) The name Joy.

14. What does Mr. Arable do to make Wilbur feel faint?
(a) He tells Mr. Zuckerman that Fern and the Arables will be moving away after the County Fair.
(b) He says he knew Wilbur would always be a runt and never amount to anything.
(c) He says that he doesn't think Wilbur has a chance to win a blue ribbon.
(d) He tells Mr. Zuckerman that he will get lots of meat when he kills Wilbur.

15. How does Wilbur convince Templeton to retrieve Charlotte's egg sac for him?
(a) He promises to let Templeton always have first choice of the food in his trough.
(b) He threatens to call Mr. Zuckerman's attention to the rat.
(c) He tells Templeton the oldest sheep will punish him when they return to the farm.
(d) He offers Templeton a stack of junk food people have dropped in his pen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fern wish at the end of Chapter 19?

2. What does the cousin in Charlotte's first story do?

3. Where is Fern when Wilbur receives his special award?

4. What does Fern want when everyone is preparing to take Wilbur to the judges' stand to receive a special award?

5. In Chapter 13, why does Charlotte have Wilbur run around?

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