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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Wenda Gambling headed when she gets caught up behind the truck?
(a) Her cousin's.
(b) Her grandmother's.
(c) Her mother's.
(d) Her sister's.

2. How long does it take Professor Cumberly to go five blocks in a taxi during a heavy traffic day?
(a) Four hours.
(b) Fifteen minutes.
(c) Forty minutes.
(d) Five hours.

3. How long has Morris the Florist been in business at the opening of the pushcart war?
(a) Fourteen years.
(b) Forty-three years.
(c) Fourteen days.
(d) Four months.

4. How long is it before the pushcart vendors know the truckers have declared war?
(a) Over a week.
(b) Over a year.
(c) Over a month.
(d) Over six months.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wenda Gambling have to eat on the night after she gets stuck behind the truck?

2. What is "The Day the Traffic Stopped?"

3. What does Old Anna say the real menace is?

4. Who is the only person in New York who might know how many pushcarts there are in the city?

5. What is Morris the Florist's pushcart number?

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