Charlotte’s Web Quizzes

Charlotte's Web Quiz 1

By Zara Tempest Walters · Edited by Soman Chainani · Last reviewed October 26, 2009

1 What does Fern ask her mother in the first line of the book?

'Where's Papa going with that axe?'

'Where's Papa?'

'Why is Papa going out to the hoghouse?'

Where's Papa going with that shovel?'
2 Why does Mr Arable set out to kill one of the piglets?

Because it is a runt and won't amount to anything

Because it is sick

Because it is bigger than all the other pigs and will cost too much to feed

Because it isn't pink
3 How does Fern feel about her father killing the piglet?

She is appalled and argues with her father to spare the animal

She is happy looks forward to fresh bacon for breakfast

She is indifferent

She is scared and runs in the other direction so she doesn't have to witness the slaughter
4 What does Mr Arable decide to do with the piglet once he's been persuaded not to kill it?

To give it to Fern to raise on a bottle like a baby

To let it free into the wild

To sell it for $100

To use it to carry equiptment and pull the plough
5 How old is Fern's brother Avery?

Eighteen

Ten

Four

Twelve
6 What does Avery liken the piglet to when he first sees it?

A human baby

A ball

A white rat

A seal
7 How does Fern feed the piglet?

With a baby's nursing bottle

On the grass in the garden

In a saucer

With a spoon
8 What is Avery carrying the first time we meet him?

A pirate ship

A tennis racket and a tennis ball

An air rifle and a wooden dagger

A real gun
9 When Fern gets on the bus to school after being given the piglet, what does she think about?

Her first lesson math class

What she will feed the pig for dinner

How much work the little pig will be

What a blissful world is was and how lucky she was to have her little pig
10 What does Fern name the pig?

Wilbur

Wilburt

William

Walter
11 How does Wilbur keep himself warm at night?

By sleeping with the pet cats

By crawling into Fern's bed

By covering himself completely with straw

By covering himself with mud
12 How does Fern sometimes take Wilbur out?

On her back

In her bag

Lying in the carriage alongside her doll

On her bicycle
13 When Fern and Avery go for a swim, what does Wilbur do?

He sleeps by the brook

He amuses himself in the mud

He splashes in the water with them

He runs on the lawn
14 What sort of a pig is Wilbur?

A summer pig

A winter pig

A spring pig

An autumn pig
15 How old is Wilbur when Mr Arable says he is old enough to sell?

Fifteen weeks

Five months

Five weeks

Five days
16 How much does Mr Zuckerman buy Wilbur for?

$6

$9

$20

$2
17 Who is Mr Zuckerman?

Fern's uncle

A man who lives in the village

Fern's grandfather

Fern's cousin
18 What does Mr Zuckerman forbid Fern from doing when she visits Wilbur in his barn?

From pushing Wilbur around in a pram and feeding him with a bottle

From talking to Wilbur

From feeding Wilbur

From taking Wilbur out of the pigpen and from entering the pig pen herself
19 Who persuades Wilbur to escape from the yard?

Fern

Templeton

The lamb

The goose
20 What is Mr Zuckerman's first name?

Dante

Virgil

Homer

Harold
21 The day before Wilbur meets his new friend, what spoils his plans?

Mr Zuckerman

Rain

Templeton

Snow
22 Why won't the goose play with Wilbur when he is so lonely?

Because she doesn't like him

Because she doesn't want to get wet in the rain

Because she is sick

Because she is sitting on her eggs
23 How does the lamb insult Wilbur when Wilbur asks to play with him?

By kicking mud in his face

By laughing at him

By saying that pigs are less than nothing

By ignoring him
24 What does Lurvy do on the day that WIlbur is so sad when he sees that he isn't eating his food

Scratches his back

Lets him run in the field

Forces medicine down him

Asks Fern to come and see him
25 At the end of his most lonely and miserable day, what happens to Wilbur?

He hears a voice say 'I'll be a friend to you'

He falls down and hurts his trotter

He is given extra dinner

He hears someone laughing but doesn't know who it is