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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much does Maxie win during the game?
(a) $183.25.
(b) $60,000.
(c) $13,600.
(d) $14.50.

2. What are Eddie and Maxie drinking after the card game?
(a) Wine.
(b) Beer.
(c) Cream soda.
(d) Root beer.

3. 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.

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

5. What does Maxie say you must have in order to fight a war?
(a) Money.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Ammunition.
(d) Peas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the mayor initially propose to do to stop the pea shooters?

3. Who is the world's largest producer of tacks?

4. How many of his 72 trucks is laid up on a single day, according to Big Moe?

5. What happens after the lady driver tells the cab driver "Well done" for hitting her car?

(see the answer key)

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