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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 is the name of Professor Lyman Cumberly's explanation for the attitude of the truck drivers of New York City?
(a) The Large Object Theory of History.
(b) The Mammoth Movers Theory of Traffic.
(c) The Big Truck Theory of Relativity.
(d) The Huge Item Theory of Ancient Greece.

2. Who comes up with the idea of how to fight the trucks?
(a) Old Anna.
(b) Carlos.
(c) Eddie Maroney.
(d) Maxie Hammerman.

3. What is written on Eddie Moroney's pushcart?
(a) Coal & Ice, Home Delivered.
(b) Ice Cream, Home Delivery.
(c) Circus Posters, Home Delivery.
(d) Home Delivered Flowers.

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

5. Who do taxi drivers say is to blame for the heavy traffic in New York?
(a) The other taxis.
(b) The pushcarts.
(c) The people who walk.
(d) The people who drive their private cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Wenda Gambling headed when she gets caught up behind the truck?

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

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

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

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

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