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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is the driver of the truck that hits the first truck of the pushcart war?
(a) Morris the Florist.
(b) Albert P. Mack.
(c) Marvin Seely.
(d) Mark the Pickle Seller.

5. How does Carlos present his idea to the rest of the pushcart vendors?
(a) He writes it down.
(b) Maxie Hammerman translates for him.
(c) He just tells them.
(d) He gives a demonstration.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many peas and pins do the pushcart vendors decide they must buy?

3. How is Maxie Hammerman plotting the "battle?"

4. Why doesn't Morris the Florist ever go above Twenty-third Street?

5. Which of the following is not a member of "The Three?"

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