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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. What does Old Anna say the real menace is?
(a) Plastic bags.
(b) Taxi cabs.
(c) Grocery stores.
(d) Truckers.

2. What does Professor Lyman Cumberly say prompted the pushcart war?
(a) Wenda Gambling's remark about the big trucks.
(b) The number of trucks on the streets.
(c) The heat.
(d) Freddie the Florist's bad attitude.

3. What does Wenda Gambling have to eat on the night after she gets stuck behind the truck?
(a) Oatmeal cookies.
(b) Dry oatmeal.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Peanut butter.

4. How long does Old Anna say she has been selling her apples and pears?
(a) Forty-five years.
(b) Four years.
(c) Fourteen years.
(d) Forty years.

5. Why doesn't Morris the Florist ever go above Twenty-third Street?
(a) There is too much traffic.
(b) People there don't buy flowers .
(c) That's Frank the Flower's territory.
(d) It's too far to walk.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened to the enlargement of Marvin Seely's picture of the first incident of the pushcart war?

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

4. How long is it before the pushcart vendors know the truckers have declared war?

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the three sizes of trucks operated by Mammoth Moving Company?

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