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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Police Commissioner advise the Mayor to do?
(a) Declare a war.
(b) Arrest The Three.
(c) Arrest all the truck drivers.
(d) Declare a truce.

2. Who attends the meeting called by The Three following the poker game at Maxie Hammerman's?
(a) The Three and the Police Commissioner.
(b) All the pushcart vendors.
(c) All the truck drivers.
(d) The Three and the Mayor.

3. What is the act drawn up during the peace treaty and adopted by the City Council?
(a) The Pushcart Law.
(b) The Kindness Act.
(c) The Truckers Rights.
(d) The Courtesy Act.

4. How many pushcarts are destroyed?
(a) About eight.
(b) None.
(c) About eighty.
(d) Forty-seven.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is ordered to search incoming trucks for shipments of peas?

2. What does the mayor and city council eventually decide as a way of trying to stop the pea shooters?

3. Where do the pushcarts usually gather on Bleecker Street?

4. Who buys the pins and peas for the pushcart vendors?

5. Who is causing the next round of truck flats?

(see the answer key)

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