The Wednesday Wars April

Holling said, this was "the kind of stuff that makes you hope that you are never alone in the locker room with the other guys on your team." To what is he referring?

• rats
• being a 7th grader on varsity cross country
• dating Meryl Lee
• his father's passion for business

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Mr. Guaresch "received an administrative reassignment."  What does this mean?

• He was no longer the principal and went back to teaching.
• He is a principal at a different school.
• He was fired.
• All the reader knows is he's gone.

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CCSS.RI.7.1

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CCSS.RL.8.1

President Johnson's announcement on television was...

• the Vietnam war was over.
• he was not running for reelection.
• more troops were being sent to Vietnam.
• he was running for reelection.

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

Holling says he and Meryl Lee would look at one another and know what the other was thinking, even though they wouldn't say it.  He compared it to...

• Romeo and Juliet
• Macbeth and Macduff
• Julius Caesar and Mark Antony
• Jim Hawkins and Captain Flint

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

What Shakespeare play did Holling read in April?

• none
• Taming of the Shrew
• Hamlet
• Much Ado about Nothing

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CCSS.RI.9-10.9

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Mr. Hoodhood looked grim and said, "We are coming apart."  Why?

• He was talking about the US because Martin Luther King was killed.
• He thought the country would fall because Walter Cronkite retired.
• He meant the Hoodhood family was falling apart because Holling's sister refused to come out of her room.
• He referred to his company losing money over the junior high building project.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

At the baseball game, Mrs. Baker becomes a celebrity herself.  How?

• She caught a foul ball.
• The players recognize her as an Olympic runner.
• She was chosen to throw out the first pitch.
• She saved Holling when a bat flew out of a batter's hand.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What did Mrs. Baker have to do to meet the owner of Yankee Stadium to talk about renovations?

• Get to the game early
• Hit Mel Stottlemyre's fast ball
• Take Holling to the Yankee game
• Come back the next day

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

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CCSS.RL.3.1

What was the issue of the argument between Mr. Hoodhood and his daughter?

• She wanted to go to college.
• She wanted a car.
• She wanted to borrow money.
• Her grades in school were poor.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Who was at the cross country meet to cheer on the runners?

• Hupfer family, Meryl Lee and her dad, Mrs. Baker
• no one except the coach
• Holling's parents but not his sister

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