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The Wednesday Wars
Holling's sister Heather doesn't get along with her father at all. A would-be hippy and flower-child who has enthusiastically embraced the counter-culture of late sixties America, Heather is...
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In the chapter entitled "January," Holling is walking home, about to be attacked by Doug Swieteck's brother and other boys holding snowballs, when he sees the school bus gliding into the...
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The Wednesday Wars
A quiz on The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt would be indeed a very entertaining and worthwhile activity. Here are some suggestions for questions and their answers. How many of the chapters are...
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During the course of the school year covered in The Wednesday Wars, Holling matures as a student, in relation to his attitude toward academic engagement and achievement, and as a friend and a...
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I can think of two major disappointments that Mr. Hoodhood experiences during The Wednesday Wars. The first disappointment is a totally understandable one. It is the disappointment that he...
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The narrator compares himself to Doug Swieteck in September to emphasize that he isn't the kind of student teachers should dislike. He goes into detail about all the terrible things that Doug did:...
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The legendary Micky Mantle will be signing baseballs at the Baker Sporting Emporium. As one of his biggest fans Holling is naturally thrilled at the chance to meet one of his heroes. Unfortunately,...
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Gary Schmidt’s novel is set in 1967–1968, during the Vietnam War and a period of civil unrest in the United States. Everyone is aware of the war’s effects on American society, but a few characters...
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It's Wednesday, that day of the week when the Catholic kids go to catechism and the Jewish kids go to Hebrew school. As the lone Presbyterian in school, Holling has to perform a variety of tedious...
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In a work of literature, the resolution can be defined as that part of the story where the main problem is resolved or worked out. In The Wednesday Wars, the resolution comes when Mrs. Baker's...
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In The Wednesday Wars, the Hoodhoods are Holling’s family, while the Kowalskis are the family of his friend Meryl Lee. Through the course of Gary Schmidt’s novel, the teenagers’ friendship grows...
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Because the question does not mention a specific chapter of The Wednesday Wars, this answer includes examples of hyperbole from several chapters. As the book begins, Holling Hoodhood is convinced...
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The Perfect House is the name of the model of house that Holling Hoodhood’s father has designed and built. The Hoodhood family lives in one of these homes. The house is far from perfect, however:...
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A dynamic character is one who changes throughout the story as a result of overcoming the conflict of the story. Since the protagonist is the character who battles against and overcomes the...
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Mrs. Baker proves to be a remarkably resourceful and well-connected person, which comes as a revelation to Holling. In addition to being an English teacher, she has a background in athletics....
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I believe that this question is asking about events that happen in the chapter titled "March." Holling Hoodhood has been reading Shakespeare's play Julius Ceasar, and he is fully aware that bad...
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There are two rats in Gary Schmidt’s novel. Lieutenant Baker gave the rats to his wife, Mrs. Baker, who is Holling Hoodhood’s teacher. She appreciates them because they remind him of her husband...
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As February begins, Holling is pleased that his friendship with Meryl Lee is progressing. The romantic theme is emphasized both by his reading William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for Mrs. Baker...
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Initially, Mrs. Bigio, the school cook at Camillo Junior High, treats Mai Thi with considerable cruelty and disrespect. Mai Thi is Vietnamese, and as Mrs. Bigio's husband was killed while serving...
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Heather Hoodhood is much more than what she at first appears to be: an antagonistic older sister. In some ways, Heather is a typical argumentative and rebellious teenager; however, she also...
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One way to consider Holling Hoodhood as open minded is to consider his attitude about Mrs. Baker's idea that he read Shakespeare plays. When Mrs. Baker first suggests it, Holling thinks that Mrs....
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Holling's dad is an architect who's in competition with Meryl Lee Kowalski's dad to design a new junior high school building. When Holling sees his dad's plans for the new school, he's mightily...
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The novel traces the development of Holling Hoodhood through the course of the school year; the book is organized by months. Holling is a dynamic character in that he changes considerably over this...
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The answer to this question can be found in the closing paragraphs of the book. Holling Hoodhood, Meryl Lee, Doug Swieteck, and the rest of the class all accompany Mrs. Baker to the airport to help...
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The play that Mrs. Baker and Holling Hoodhood are discussing the end of is The Tempest. Mrs. Baker asks Holling if he liked the play's ending, and Holling says that he did like. Holling even...
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Holling's father wanted their home to be the Perfect House. Mother Nature was always at war with him because she kept him from his goal of the perfect house. Holling calls his house the Perfect...
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During the course of the school year covered in the novel, the siblings' relationship improves considerably. Heather's opinion of her brother changes after he saves her life and is injured in the...
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In The Wednesday Wars, Holling HoodHood is a student that is given the task of reading through the works of William Shakespeare by his teacher Mrs. Baker. He has the fortune of one-on-one lessons...
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Mrs. Baker and Holling do not start the story out on good terms. Holling actually thinks that Mrs. Baker hates him, and he's not far off. Mrs. Baker is essentially asked to babysit Holling during...
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A reader should look to the chapter that covers the month of October to find the answer to this question. The cream puff debacle extends over a couple of months, but Holling is able to secure...
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In Gary D. Schmidt's young adult historical novel The Wednesday Wars, Mr. Samowitz in the math teacher at Camillo Junior High School on Long Island in New York, which is the setting for the novel....
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Throughout Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, Holling applies multiple lessons found in Shakespeare's plays to his own life. Two of those lessons concern better understanding his father and...
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Mrs. Baker claims that teachers can know the future and asks Holling if he wants to know what his own future will be like. Holling doesn't, but in any case Mrs. Baker tells him that it will have a...
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This question could be referring to two very different kinds of hurt that Holling experiences in the book. One is physical, the other is emotional. The physical hurt is likely referring to the time...
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Mr. Hoodhood in The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt, is not a very appealing or sympathetic character. He is Holling's father and is not a very supportive man—much more interested in his own life...
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Meryl Lee, in Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, is a truly caring person. Holling believes that Meryl Lee has been in love with him since the third grade. Regardless of the truth of this...
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The central theme in Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars concerns personal growth. Throughout the story, Schmidt shows us that personal growth can only come from overcoming internal and external...
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The plot sequence for The Wednesday Wars starts out with Holling being left out of Hebrew School and Catholic Catechism Class, which is the dilemma that lands Holling in testy Mrs. Baker's room,...
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The main conflict in the book Wednesday Wars is Holling Hoodhood's struggle to grow up. In order to do this, Holling must learn to view things from perspectives other than his own, and, most...
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Person vs. Self: The novel focuses mainly on person vs. self conflict because it is a "coming-of-age" tale about Holling Hoodhood. As a seventh grader, Holling is in an awkward stage in life...
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Holling's father, Mr. Hoodhood, wants to project the image of perfection to his community. He wants to be the perfect architect, have the perfect family, and of course, have the perfect house....
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Two really important things happen in the world during the nine months of The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt. One is the Vietnam War and the other is the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr....
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In 'Wednesday Wars,' Holling comes to realize some things about war and discrimination. I will endeavor to outline for you how those realizations shape who Holling becomes. In the novel, Mai Thi is...
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The answer to this question can be found relatively early in the chapter titled "October." Holling is giving readers a summary of all of the horrible cleaning chores that he has to do for Mrs....
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The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt is set in 1967, and we know that based primarily on two events that were happening in the world around Holling Hoodhood and his family. The first time marker is...
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Tone is defined as the author's attitude toward the subject, the characters, or the audience, and tone is expressed through an author's stylistic devices. The very first tone we sense in the...
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The first quote to appear that gives the reader some insight into Meryl Lee's character is the following quote. So I asked Meryl Lee Kowalski, who has been in love with me since she first laid...
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Whenever Holling mentions Doug Swieteck's brother (never referred to by his first name), it's usually to point out his bad behavior. The primary character trait that becomes attached to Doug...
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Sycorax and Caliban are two characters from Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Sycorax is a powerful and sadistic witch. She is also the mother of Caliban, who is one of the main antagonists of the...
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I'm not 100% sure exactly which of Mrs. Baker's new plans that you are referring to, because Mrs. Baker has several plans throughout the year. I believe that you are asking about Mrs. Baker's new...