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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19 - The Egg Sac.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Wilbur unconcerned that he has been growing bigger?
(a) He says that at his age it's a good idea to keep gaining.
(b) He is still very skinny.
(c) He says that as the runt of the litter, he had a lot of catching up to do.
(d) He still can squeeze under the rails of the fence in the yard.

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

4. What is Charlotte's idea for saving Wilbur?
(a) She will help him escape under the fence.
(b) She will play a trick on Zuckerman.
(c) She will find someone to buy him from Zuckerman.
(d) She will convince Fern to take him back.

5. How does Mr. Zuckerman get Wilbur to return to the pigpen?
(a) By chasing him around and around the barn.
(b) By reasoning with him.
(c) By luring him back with a pail full of slops.
(d) By trapping him in a net.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mrs. Zuckerman prepare Wilbur for the Fair?

2. What does Charlotte do in the night at the Fair that she almost never does?

3. How does Wilbur escape from the yard?

4. Who is Dr. Dorian?

5. Which of the following is not a defense Charlotte offers for her way of life -- catching bugs and eating them?

(see the answer key)

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