Q 01/05

Which baseball idol refuses to sign Holling Hoodhood's ball because the boy turns up wearing yellow tights?

A) Yogi Berra

B) Mickey Mantle

C) Mel Stottlemyre

D) Roger Maris

Answer · why

B) Mickey Mantle

Mickey Mantle tosses the ball on the floor, and Danny Hupfer hands back his own signed one in protest. Holling had raced over straight from the stage,...

Q 02/05

Which fairy role in a Shakespeare play lands Holling Hoodhood on the front page of the local newspaper?

A) Puck

B) Oberon

C) Ariel

D) Titania

Answer · why

C) Ariel

Ariel is a part he gets only because the town baker, Mr. Goldman, needs a boy who knows Shakespeare. The Home Town Chronicle prints a mid-leap photogr...

Q 03/05

Which pastries does Holling Hoodhood accidentally coat in chalk dust while cleaning erasers for Mrs. Baker?

A) Cream puffs

B) Jelly doughnuts

C) Apple turnovers

D) Lemon tarts

Answer · why

A) Cream puffs

Cream puffs baked for the Wives of Vietnam Soldiers sat cooling under an open window above him. His classmates then demand a batch of their own, a deb...

Q 04/05

Which names belong to Mrs. Baker's two pet rats, which escape while Holling Hoodhood cleans their cage?

A) Goneril and Regan

B) Antony and Cleopatra

C) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

D) Sycorax and Caliban

Answer · why

D) Sycorax and Caliban

Sycorax and Caliban were a gift from Mrs. Baker's husband, cute as babies before they grew big and scabby. They stay loose inside the school walls unt...

Q 05/05

Holling Hoodhood is the only seventh grader left with Mrs. Baker on Wednesdays because he belongs to which church?

A) Presbyterian

B) Congregationalist

C) Methodist

D) Episcopalian

Answer · why

A) Presbyterian

Presbyterian puts him in a class of one: half his classmates leave for Hebrew school and the rest for catechism. The only two friends who shared his c...