Question 1

What does runt mean?

Accepted Answer

small

Answer

large

Answer

strong

Question 2

Fern asks Mr. Arable, If I had been small at birth, would you have killed me?" Why did Fern say this?

Accepted Answer

to try to talk her father out of killing the pig

Answer

Wilbur will grow bigger in the spring

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to scare her dad

Answer

to ask her dad to kill the pig

Question 3

"Wilbur" is what farmers call a spring pig". What does this mean?

Accepted Answer

Wilbur was born in the spring time.

Answer

Farmers only have pigs in the spring

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Wilbur will grow bigger in the spring

Answer

Wilbur likes the spring

Question 4

Why did Mr. Arable want to sell Wilbur when he was 5 weeks old?

Accepted Answer

Wilbur was eating more and more food

Answer

He wanted to make money

Answer

Mr. Arable did not want anymore pigs on his farm

Answer

He was still too small.

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