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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Fern wish at the end of Chapter 19?
(a) That she were riding the Ferris wheel with Henry Fussy.
(b) That she never had to grow up.
(c) That this day would never end.
(d) That Wilbur will live forever.

5. Who does the voice on the loud speaker at the fair say cannot write?
(a) Pigs.
(b) Rats.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Spiders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Charlotte give for weaving her webs for Wilbur?

2. What happens when Lurvy tries to wake up Wilbur?

3. What does Fern's mother accuse her of doing at the beginning of Chapter 14?

4. What does Dr. Dorian predict will happen to Fern?

5. What does Mr. Arable do to make Wilbur feel faint?

Short Essay Questions

1. After whose hour of triumph might this chapter be named, and why?

2. What effect do Charlotte's webs start to have on Wilbur?

3. Why does Wilbur struggle when the men try to put him in the crate?

4. Which animals go to the Fair and why?

5. Does Wilbur act more like a child or an adult when it is time for him to go to sleep during his first night at the Fair?

6. How is Charlotte's time and attention beginning to split as the trip to the County Fair approaches?

7. How are things on the farm changing as summer turns to fall?

8. What lesson does the old sheep teach at the end of Chapter 12?

9. How does Mrs. Arable feel about Fern's stories about the animals and what they talk about?

10. What can readers tell about Charlotte's position in the barn from the meeting the animals have?

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