Wednesday Wars- February and March

At the beginning of February, Mrs. Baker assigns Holling a new play to read. How long does it take him to read Romeo and Juliet?

• one week

• three days

• one month

• three weeks

Holling convinces Meryl Lee to go out with him on Valentine’s Day by …

• Bringing her a cream puff

• Quoting lines from Shakespeare

• Promising her a surprise dinner

• Showing her how to diagram sentences.

What does Mrs. Bigio give Holling when he comes down the cafeteria?

• cream puffs

• hot chocolate

• tickets to Romeo and Juliet

• a signed baseball from Mickey Mantle

Both Mr. Kowalski and Mr. Hoodhood are the only two architects competing for the new junior high school bid. Mr. Hoodhood’s design is different because it’s

• modern

• classical

• bigger

• smaller

After the school board meeting, Holling accuses Meryl Lee of …

• Ruining all the cream puffs.

• Showing his dad’s design to her father.

• Being Juliet to his Romeo.

• Telling all his friends he loves Romeo and Juliet

Before the school board makes its final decision about which architect they will choose…

• Hoodhood and Associates withdrew its bid for the new junior high school.

• Kowalski and Associates withdrew its bid for the new junior high

  school.

• The board announced it had decided to go with a completely new firm.

• Both firms announced they would work together on the project.

Mrs. Baker received a telegraph stating that…

• Lieutenant Baker had been killed in action.

• Lieutenant Baker was missing in action

• Lieutenant Baker was coming home.

• Lieutenant Baker had been injured.

In March, Mr. Vendleri, the custodian, comes into Mrs. Baker’s room with a mallet, a ladder, and eight new ceiling tiles. When he lifts one of the tiles with the mallet …

• Sycorax and Caliban come tumbling out

• Five months of shredded everything comes out.

• The tiles break apart and tumble to the floor

• Mr. Vendeleri loses his balance and tumbles to the floor

Mrs. Baker keeps wiping her eyes which were mostly red all the time. The reader can infer that …

• She has a caught a terrible cold.

• She is moved by the plot of Julius Caesar.

• Lieutenant Baker is still missing.

• She is worried that the rats will come back.

Who does Mrs. Baker tell the class is coming to observe and

evaluate the students and teacher?

• Lieutenant Baker

• Members of the school board

• Mr. Guaresche, the principal

• Julius Caesar