The Wednesday Wars

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. What is the significance of Holling’s family home being in the center of town?

A) Everything in the town revolves around Holling’s family.

B) Holling’s “Perfect House” being in the center of town is an allusion to the phrase “perfect center.”

C) Holling’s house is in the middle of a no man’s land; nobody will claim it, just like Holling having no friends at school or at home.

D) Almost everyone in town is either Jewish or Catholic and they live separate, but Holling’s family is neither.

2. What is the significance of Holling’s father’s nickname for their house?

A) The house is a model of perfection, which will help his architecture firm gain more customers.

B) Holling’s father is a perfect person and he wants his house to be an exact representation of him.

C) Holling’s father wants everything to be perfect, including his family; the house name helps him to project that image into the community.

D) Holling’s family leans into imperfection and flaws. 

3. Which would be the least upsetting to Holling’s father?

A) Heather becoming a flower child

B) Mr. Kowalski losing the bid to design the junior high school

C) Holling missing all his lines in The Tempest.