Why didn't Holling complain about helping Mrs. Baker on Wednesday?

Mr. Hoodhood was depending on Holling's good behavior to get a business deal.

He'd rather clean than repeat sixth grade math.

Mrs. Baker would only make him do more work.

Doug Swieteck would beat him up after school.

Who were the pastries for that Mrs. Baker sent Holling to get?

Holling's father to influence him in the business deal

What is the setting of this story?

Camillo Junior High in New York

What did Meryl Lee do to get even when Miss Violet chastised her for talking to Holling during the song?

stepped on Holling's foot for a long time

CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: Why does Holling call the Hoodhood house the Perfect House?

It looks perfect on the outside

Mr. Hoodhood has Mrs. Hoodhood keep the inside spotless

It was perfectly in the center of town (right between the Catholic neighborhood and the Jewish neighborhood)

It was the most expensive house on the block. Mr. Hoodhood was a famous businessman.

Why does Holling have to spend Wednesdays with Mrs. Baker?

He is Presbyterian, so he doesn't do to CCD or Hebrew school on Wednesday afternoons like the rest of his class.

His father wanted him to have extra lessons to prepare for a life in the business world.

Mr, Hoodhood wants him to spu on Mrs. Baker to get info about the upcoming redesign of the Baker Sporting Emporium

He is being punished because of his list of How to Get Teachers to Hate You

Why is Mr. Hoodhood unsympathetic to Holling's concerns about Mrs. Baker hating him?

He wants Holling to butter her up so that he gets the architect contract to re-do the Baker Sporting emporium

He is secretly in love with Mrs. Baker

He had to put up with Mrs. Baker when HE was in school, so he figures it is Holling's turn now.

Mrs. Hoodhood thought that it would be good fro Holling to have more discipline.

At the end of the September chapter, what do we learn about Mrs. Baker that has her preoccupied?

Her husband has to fight in the Vietnam War.

She has to work for the Wives of the Vietnam Soldiers group.

She had an argument with Mr. Vendleri.

How were the cream puffs for the Wives of Vietnam meeting ruined?

Chalk dust covered them like powdered sugar

Holling didn't have enough money to get them

Why was Mr. Hoodhood mad at his daughter in October (when she came downstairs for dinner)?

She had a yellow flower painted on her cheek (she wanted to be a flower child and protest the war).

She told him that she would not work for him in the office

She insulted him by not respecting his Businessman of the Year Award

Why does Mr. Hoodhood REALLY object to his daughter's being a "flower child?"

He wants to be the 1967 Chamber of Commerce Businessman of the Year and he thinks they won't give it to someone whose family is not "perfect."

He supports the war and wants the US to win.

He wants both of his children to join his business someday, and he thinks that if she becomes a flower child she will not want to.

Why did Mrs. Baker keep Caliban and Sycorax around?

Her husband gave them to her before he went to Vietnam.

They kept the children occupied.

Mrs. Baker kept them to torture students she didn't like.

How did Caliban and Sycorax escape?

Mrs. Baker asked Holling to clean their cage and they got out by accident.

They were so evil, they chewed the bars off the cage.

Holling forgot to close the door after feeding them.

Holling was playing with them and Caliban bit him, so he dropped him!

Holling says that Mrs. Baker's nefarious plan to bore him to death by reading The Merchant of Venice failed. Why?

His father told him he didn't have to read it.

What is the setting of this story?

Camillo Junior High in New York

Why didn't Holling complain about helping Mrs. Baker on Wednesday?

Mr. Hoodhood was depending on Holling's good behavior to get a business deal.

He'd rather clean than repeat sixth grade math.

Mrs. Baker would only make him do more work.

Doug Swieteck would beat him up after school.

Who were the pastries for that Mrs. Baker sent Holling to get?

Holling's father to influence him in the business deal

Why did the teachers think it was time to have all of their chalk erasers cleaned?

The incident with Doug Swieteck's brother

Holling offered because he enjoyed cleaning them.

A student was allergic to chalk dust.

What did Holling do with the cream puff Mrs. Baker let him have?

He threw it in the coat closet.

He gave it to Mai Thi because she'd never had one.

were pets purchased by Lieutenant Tybalt Baker

made sounds not heard in nature.

Why is the Merchant of Venice called a tragedy?

Shylock cannot become what he wants to be

The merchant doesn't make any money and is poor

"November dripped onto Long Island, as it did every year" means

it was so hot everything dripped

Why was Mr. Guareschi on a ladder removing tiles from the ceiling?

o put out traps with cheese to catch the rats.

There was a leak in a water pipe.

He was hiding a security camera.

What did Meryl Lee do to get even when Miss Violet chastised her for talking to Holling during the song?

stepped on Holling's foot for a long time

What does pied ninny mean?

a person who stupidly ate so much pie he's sick

a horse with eyes the size of pie

a person with his face covered with pie someone threw at him

Why was Mr. Hoodhood dancing?

He was happy his company got the Baker contract.

He was happy the livingroom ceiling was perfect again.

Holling did well on the Shakespeare test.

How did Holling get a part in the Long Island Shakespeare Company's Holiday Extravaganza?

He quoted Shakespeare at the bakery.

He tried out at school auditions.

Why wouldn't Mrs. Baker let the students eat the cream puffs right after lunch?

The recess teacher was waiting.

Why wasn't Holling able to give the class cream puffs?

His father wouldn't give him an advance on his allowance.

Wednesday Wars September-January

Authored by Christopher Gessner

English

6th - 8th Grade

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What grade is Holling entering at the beginning of the novel?

6th

7th

8th

9th

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of Holling's father's architectural firm?

Hoodhood and Company

Kowalski and Associates

Hoodhood and Associates

Hoodhood and son

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What are the names of the two rats that Holling accidentally sets loose?

Caesar and Caliban

Sycorax and Caliban

Ariel and Caliban

Sycorax and Shylock

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Whom does Holling trip on the playground in September?

Doug Swieteck

Jim Hawkins

Doug Swieteck's brother

Danny Hupfer

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Holling was threatened with death if he didn't...

set a trap for the rats

climb the playground fence to retrieve a baseball

provide cream puffs for the entire class

bring a pot of hot apple cider to the party

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.1.1

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Holling got a good deal on the cream puffs after he...

recited lines of Shakespeare for Mr. Goldman

talked about Walter Cronkite with Mr.Goldman

caught the rats that were loose in Goldman's Best Bakery

sketched a design for a new bakery for Mr.Goldman

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 3 pts

Why did Mai Thi go to Catechism when she wasn't Catholic?

She felt she owed the Catholic Relief Agency.

Her best friend went.

Her parents made her because they wanted to become Catholic.

The Jewish center would not let Mai Thi attend Tabernacle.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

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