Charlotte's web

When Mr. Arable wanted to sell Wilbur, what did Mrs. Arable suggest Fern do?

• offer to use her chore money and birthday money to buy feed for Wilbur

• train Wilbur to do a trick or two to impress Mr. Arable

• hide the runt pig in the hayloft until Mr. Arable forgot about him

• call the Zuckermans because uncle Homer sometimes raised a pig

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Why wouldn't the goose play with Wilbur?

• She didn't like how the slippery manure in the pigpen felt on her feet

• she was sitting on her eggs, which she needed to keep toast warm

• she needed to stay outside the fence to keep the troublesome swallows away

• she preferred to spend the beautiful summer days floating on the pond

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What bad news did the old sheep deliver to wilbur?

• Fern and her family were moving to another country

• He was being fattened up to be butchered

• His mother had died the day before

• Mr. Zuckerman had purchased a huge, prizewinning male pig

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The old sheep though Templeton could help Charlotte with her webs by

• decorating the webs with the bits of colored string he had in his collection

• bringing back magazine clippings from the dump

• cleaning the dust off the wooden beams over the barn door

• catching bugs for her so she could spend more time spinning webs

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Why did Mrs. Arable pay a call on old Doctor Dorian?

• to see if the spider bite on the back of her arm was infected

• to determine the best mix of slop to make Wilbur gain weight quickly

• to show him the strange drawings Avery had made of the farm animals

• to ask his advice about Fern, who was spending a lot of time in the barn

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Why did Mrs. Zuckerman decide to do the morning of the Country Fair?

• give Wilbur a buttermilk bath

• feed Wilbur and entire chocolate cake

• paint Wilbur's crate bright red

• clean the wax out of wilbur's ears

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What was the last word Charlotte ever wrote on her web?

• DECENT

• HUMBLE

• GOLDEN

• WINNER

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What revived Wilbur when he fainted in front of the crowd in the fair?

• Avery slapping and pinching Wilbur's pale cheeks

• Templeton biting Wilbur's tail as hard as he could bite

• Charlotte singing Wilbur's favorite song on his ear

• the rooster crowing from it's cage beside Wilbur's head

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In exchange for first choice of Wilbur's slops, Templeton agreed to---

• shake some of the dew off the HUMBLE web so bystanders could see it better

• climb up and get Charlotte's egg sac so Wilbur could take it home

• scare away the judges who were standing beneath Charlotte

• give Charlotte a ride to the judge's booth at the front of the grandstand

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What did Charlotte's babies do that made wilbur frantic?

• They went home from the fair with uncle, who said he knew their father

• they crawled up the leg of Avery's pants and squealed

• they spun their webs in the sheepfold instead of in the pigpen

• they formed silk balloons and sailed away on a warm updraft

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