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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many sections of the city report flats once they begin occurring again?
(a) Four.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

2. Where had Wenda Gambling requested that the one ton of peas be delivered?
(a) Wenda Gamblin's apartment.
(b) Wenda Gambling's studio.
(c) Maxie Hammerman's shop.
(d) Wenda Gamblin's pea farm.

3. How many of his 72 trucks is laid up on a single day, according to Big Moe?
(a) 70.
(b) 72.
(c) 36.
(d) 16.

4. What does Wenda Gambling have to eat on the night after she gets stuck behind the truck?
(a) Dry oatmeal.
(b) Oatmeal cookies.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Peanut butter.

5. What does the truck driver call Mr. Jerusalem's pushcart?
(a) A pile of junk.
(b) Unsanitary.
(c) An ugly contraption.
(d) A baby buggy.

6. How long has Morris the Florist been in business at the opening of the pushcart war?
(a) Forty-three years.
(b) Four months.
(c) Fourteen days.
(d) Fourteen years.

7. How many Mighty Mammoths does the mayor use to blockage entrances into the city?
(a) Ninty-three.
(b) Nine.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Twenty-Nine.

8. What is one theory about how Frank could have caused all the flats?
(a) He was a very good shot.
(b) He could run very fast.
(c) He had a helicopter.
(d) He had a car .

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

10. Who is the world's largest producer of tacks?
(a) The puchcart vendors.
(b) Teachers.
(c) England.
(d) Vermont.

11. How many peas and pins do the pushcart vendors decide they must buy?
(a) A half ton of each.
(b) As many as they can grow.
(c) A ton of each.
(d) None, they'll build the pins and grow the peas.

12. What is Big Moe's first explanation for the number of flats?
(a) That the pushcart vendors are behind it.
(b) That the tires he bought were rotten.
(c) That the other trucking companies are behind it.
(d) That the aliens are behind it.

13. Who is it that gives away boxes of tacks to his customers?
(a) Mr. Jerusalem.
(b) Harry Hot Dog.
(c) General Anna.
(d) The Mayor.

14. Who does Big Moe call to complain about the Police Commissioner?
(a) Mayor Elmer P. Fudd.
(b) The other trucking company owners.
(c) Frank the Flower.
(d) Mayor Emmett P. Cudd.

15. How many days pass after Frank's arrest without a flat?
(a) Three days.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Three hours.
(d) Thirteen days.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the word the citizens of New York use to protest the tacks tax?

3. Who comes up with the idea of how to fight the trucks?

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

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

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