Charlotte's Web Chapters 2 & 3

What theme or central message is present in the story in chapters 2 & 3?

• farming

• death

• friendship

• circle of life

• motherhood

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CCSS.RL.2.2

What evidence from the text supports your answer to Part A?

• For the first few days of his life, Wilbur was allowed to live in a box near the stove in the kitchen. Then, when Mrs. Arable complained, he was moved to a bigger box in the woodshed.

• It was apple-blossom time, and the days were getting warmer. Mr. Arable fixed a small yard specially for Wilbur under an apple tree, and gave him a large wooden box full of straw, with a doorway cut in it so he could walk in and out as he pleased.

• When he had finished the last drop, he grunted and walked sleepily into the box.

• Fern loved Wilbur more than anything. She loved to stroke him, to feed him, to put him to bed. Every morning as soon as she got up, she warmed his milk, tied his bib on, and held the bottle for him.

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CCSS.RL.2.1

What did Wilbur do to keep himself warm in the box under the apple tree?

• He grunted and walked sleepily into the box.

• He poked his snout into the straw.

• He dug a tunnel in the straw and crawled into the tunnel.

• It relieved her mind to know that her baby would sleep covered up and stay warm.

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CCSS.RL.2.1

What did Wilbur do every morning with Fern?

• He would stand and watch the bus until it vanished around a turn.

• Wilbur was shut up inside his yard.

• As soon as she got home he would follow Fern around.

• He walked out to the road with Fern and waited with her until the bus came.

• He played catch with Fern every morning.

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CCSS.RL.2.1

Why was Wilbur called a spring pig?

• Wilbur liked the springtime.

• Wilbur was a runt.

• Wilbur was born in the springtime.

• Wilbur liked to bounce around.

• Wilbur liked the mud which was warm and moist.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

What did Mr. Arable want to do to Wilbur when he was five weeks old?

• Mr. Arable wanted to sell Wilbur.

• Mr. Arable wanted to kill Wilbur with an ax.

• Mr. Arable wanted to give him to Fern and Avery as a pet.

• Mr. Arable wanted to enter him into a competition.

• Mr. Arable wanted to give Wilbur to the Zuckerman's to be killed to make bacon.

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CCSS.RL.2.1

Mr. Arable told Fern that she had to get rid of Wilbur because the family needed to sell him for the money.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.2.1

What is a description NOT used to describe the barn at Mr. Zuckerman's farm?

• The barn was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure.

• It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the sweet breath of patient cows.

• It smelled of grain and harness dressing and of axle grease. And it smelled of fish.

• It smelled of pigs and warm, oozy mud. It smelled of apple trees and wet straw.

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CCSS.RL.2.1

Where did Wilbur live at the Zuckerman's farm?

• Wilbur lived in a crate under an apple tree.

• Wilbur lived in the lower part of the barn directly underneath the cows.

• Wilbur lived outside of the barn by the sheep in a pasture filled with manure.

• Wilbur lived in the house with the Zuckerman's.

• Wilbur lived in Pennsylvania.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

According to the text, why did all the animals trust Fern?

• She was so quiet and friendly.

• She was strong and compassionate.

• She saved Wilbur from being killed with an ax.

• She sat quietly during the long afternoons, thinking and listening.

• She could understand the animals.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1