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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charlotte predict for Wilbur after he has been awarded the special prize?
(a) Mr. Zuckerman will sell Wilbur for a lot of money.
(b) Wilbur will have to win a prize at the County Fair every year to keep from being killed and turned into bacon and ham.
(c) Nothing will ever happen to him because he means a great deal to Mr. Zuckerman now.
(d) Fern will bring Wilbur back to her house to live.

2. Why did Charlotte want to make the Zuckermans think that Wilbur is an unusual pig?
(a) So they'll enter him in the County Fair pig contest.
(b) So they will give him better food.
(c) So they will let him live with Fern again.
(d) So they wouldn't kill and eat him.

3. What is the oldest sheep's idea for how Charlotte can get ideas for more words to write in her web?
(a) Fern can bring books from her house.
(b) Templeton can collect and bring back paper advertisements from the dump.
(c) The goose and the gander can scare the mailman and steal some letters.
(d) The animals can sneak some of the Zuckermans' newspapers into the barn.

4. What does Charlotte write in her last web?
(a) Pig Supreme.
(b) Humble.
(c) With New Radiant Action.
(d) Crunchy.

5. Which of the following is not an errand or favor that Templeton points out that he has done for Wilbur and Charlotte?
(a) Making trip after trip to the dump for magazine clippings.
(b) Biting Wilbur's tail to wake him up after he fainted.
(c) Chasing off Mrs. Zuckerman when she tried to dust away one of Charlotte's first attempts at writing.
(d) Saving Charlotte's life by scaring Avery away with the rotten goose egg.

6. Why does Charlotte want Templeton to come to the Fair?
(a) To keep him from causing mischief in the barnyard while she is gone.
(b) To run errands and do general work.
(c) To help her guard Wilbur.
(d) Wilbur is the one who wants Templeton to come.

7. Which of the following is not something Fern and Avery mention they want to do at the Fair?
(a) Play the ring toss game.
(b) Steer a jet plane.
(c) Win a doll by spinning a wheel.
(d) Eat and drink cheeseburgers and soda pop.

8. At the end of Chapter 18, how does Fern feel about the time she spent at the Fair?
(a) She says she didn't enjoy it too much because the Ferris wheel made her sick to her stomach.
(b) She says she had the best time she has ever had anywhere or any time in all of her whole life.
(c) She says she couldn't enjoy herself very much because she was too worried about Wilbur.
(d) She says she had a bad time because Avery and Henry Fussy kept teasing her.

9. How are Wilbur's destiny and Templeton's destiny linked, according to Charlotte?
(a) They can help each other become stars if they pool their talents.
(b) If anything happens to Wilbur, Templeton won't have any food to eat.
(c) They would make great pets for Fern and Avery.
(d) Mr. Zuckerman is plotting to get rid of both of them.

10. 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.

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

12. What does Charlotte do in the night at the Fair that she almost never does?
(a) Let a fly go free from her web.
(b) Argue with Wilbur.
(c) Leave her web.
(d) Be nice to Templeton.

13. What does the author say Wilbur realizes is one of the most satisfying things in the world?
(a) Fame.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Safety.
(d) A good dinner.

14. Why does Fern put on her prettiest dress before the fair?
(a) She wants to look nice for Wilbur.
(b) Her father tells her that only tomboys wear overalls all the time.
(c) She knows she will see boys at the Fair.
(d) He mother makes her change into it.

15. What does Charlotte do while she is spinning her web?
(a) Snack on flies.
(b) Talk to herself.
(c) Sing songs.
(d) Yawn over and over.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not an instruction given by Mr. and Mrs. Arable to Fern and Avery?

2. Why does Charlotte say Uncle will be hard for Wilbur to beat?

3. How does the old sheep convince Templeton to go to the Fair?

4. Which of the following is not a name Wilbur gives to one of Charlotte's children?

5. At the end of the book, what does Wilbur conclude is the best place to be?

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