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WorksheetsThe Wednesday Wars September and October
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
Who used the number 6 trick from the "How to Get Your Teacher to Hate You" list on Mrs. Sidman?
Doug Swietek
Danny Hupfer
Doug Swietek's brother
Mai Thi
Who was the news reporter that Holling's dad listened to every night after work?
Walter Cronkite
Mr. Goldman
Mickey Mantle
Lyndon Johnson
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.
Her husband is divorcing her
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
The rats ate them
Holling dropped them
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 didn't like Lima Beans
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.
He hates flowers.
According to Holling's sister, what does Holling's father think he is "supposed to be"?
the Son Who Is Going to Inherit Hoodhood and Associates
Ariel in the play, "The Tempest"
A doctor or a lawyer
a flower child
After the cream puff problem, Mrs. Baker doesn't think it is such a good idea to have Holling banging erasers anymore - what does she decide to have him do on Wednesdays?
Read Shakespeare
Take another math class
He can leave early
Art class
What was the first Shakespeare play they read?
The Merchant of Venice
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest
Julius Caesar
Who is Caliban and Sycorax?
New students
Mrs. Baker's rats
Members of the NY Yankees
New teachers
If Caliban and Sycorax were so frightening, why did Mrs. Baker keep them around?
Mr. Baker gave them to her before he went to Vietnam.
They were for science class.
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?
He actually liked it.
He didn't read it.
He had already read it.
His father told him he didn't have to read it.
When Mrs. Baker and Holling are talking about the character Shylock, Holling says that Shylock couldn't be "who he was supposed to be" because other people decided he had to be a "certain way" and that Shylock was "trapped." Who ELSE in the story has already had his life planned out for him?
Holling (he is supposed to be an architect)
Doug Swietek (he is going to be a trouble maker)
Mr. Vandeleri (he has to be a math teacher)
Danny Hupfer (he has to be a baseball player)
