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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many sections of the city report flats once they begin occurring again?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Three.

2. How do truck drivers get their perishable goods delivered if they have a flat?
(a) They carry it themselves.
(b) They hire other trucking companies.
(c) They hire school children.
(d) They hire pushcarts.

3. What is on the truck that's involved in the first incident of the pushcart war?
(a) Nineteen hundred pickles.
(b) Ninety bunches of daffodils.
(c) Ninety dozen piano stools.
(d) Ninety dozen donuts.

4. What color are the pea shooters?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

5. What does Mack believe to be the explanation behind the flats?
(a) There was bad rubber.
(b) The other trucking companies caused it.
(c) Aliens caused it.
(d) The pushcart vendors caused it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Morris the Florist been in business at the opening of the pushcart war?

2. What is the purpose of the spotters who ride on the hoods of some trucks?

3. When the children take up the war, at what kinds of tires do they shoot?

4. How long does Old Anna say she has been selling her apples and pears?

5. Who has the idea to take up a collection to buy Morris a new pushcart?

(see the answer key)

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