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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who gives the famous "peanut butter speech?"
(a) Archie Love.
(b) Emmet P. Cudd.
(c) Wenda Gambling.
(d) Morris the Florist.

4. What is the fine that is imposed on anyone who leaves a truck parked for longer than an hour?
(a) $500.
(b) $50.
(c) There is no fine.
(d) $100.

5. Who has the idea to take up a collection to buy Morris a new pushcart?
(a) Maxie Hammerman.
(b) Frank the Flower.
(c) Old Anna.
(d) Papa Peretz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the color gold signify on Maxie's man of the battle?

2. How many tacks are purchased the day after the tax is repealed?

3. Who are the last motorists to become frightened of the trucks?

4. What kind of hat is being sold in the department store?

5. What is one theory about how Frank could have caused all the flats?

(see the answer key)

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