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

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

3. What is "The Day the Traffic Stopped?"
(a) A television program.
(b) A theory.
(c) A book.
(d) A radio program.

4. Why does Wenda Gambling say there is a traffic problem in New York?
(a) There are too many taxis.
(b) There are too many big trucks.
(c) There are too many immovable objects.
(d) There are too many pedestrians.

5. Who is the owner of the pushcart that is the first victim of the pushcart war?
(a) Morris the Florist.
(b) Mark the Pickle Seller.
(c) Albert P. Mack.
(d) Marvin Seely.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the driver of the first pushcart destroyed in the war land?

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

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

4. How long does it take Professor Cumberly to go five blocks in a taxi during a heavy traffic day?

5. What is the name of Professor Lyman Cumberly's explanation for the attitude of the truck drivers of New York City?

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