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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 does Mr. Zuckerman tell his wife to do when they find the new web?
(a) Go visit the minister.
(b) Get a camera so they can photograph the web.
(c) Call a local news reporter.
(d) Help him rip down this spooky web.

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

3. Why does Mr. Zuckerman ask Lurvy to start building a crate for Wilbur?
(a) He intends to sell Wilbur to the farmer down the road.
(b) He is planning to take Wilbur to the County Fair.
(c) He wants to lock WIlbur up so no more webs will appear.
(d) He wants to keep Wilbur safe so no one will steal him.

4. What does Charlotte ask Templeton to bring her back from the fair?
(a) Some junk food, to cheer Wilbur up.
(b) A word, so she can write something new in her web.
(c) Some rope, so they can make a pretend web for Wilbur.
(d) Fern, to come talk to Wilbur.

5. What does the cousin in Charlotte's first story do?
(a) Burrow underground and make a web there.
(b) Live in the same web in a house for 53 years.
(c) Catch and eat a fish.
(d) Ride on a truck from city to city.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not something Fern and Avery mention they want to do at the Fair?

2. What happens in Wilbur's bad dream?

3. At the end of Chapter 18, how does Fern feel about the time she spent at the Fair?

4. What does Templeton do to help Wilbur during the awarding of Wilbur's prize?

5. In what does Fern's mother get interested in spite of herself?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Before he is to leave the Fair and return to the farm, why does Wilbur bring up the fact that he once thought Charlotte was cruel and bloodthirsty?

3. 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?

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

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

6. How can readers tell at the end of Chapter 21 that Wilbur is starting to grow up a little?

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

8. How is the experience of going to the Fair different for the children and for the adults?

9. Why might Charlotte's children mean so much to Wilbur?

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

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