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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Morris the Florist's pushcart number?
(a) X-105.
(b) FLWR-10.
(c) BR-229.
(d) X-RAY.
2. How many tires does Frank the Flower really believe he has killed?
(a) Seven or Eight.
(b) Seventy or Eighty.
(c) Fourteen or Fifteen.
(d) Seventeen or Eighteen.
3. What does the color gold signify on Maxie's man of the battle?
(a) A flat on a normal-sized truck.
(b) A flat on a big truck.
(c) A flat on a pushcart.
(d) A flat on a taxi or car.
4. What is the Pea Tack Squad looking at when they discover Wenda Gambling's order for peas?
(a) The bags of peas.
(b) The company ledgers.
(c) The company's telephone records.
(d) The canceled checks.
5. Who tells the Mayor that the tax has to be lifted?
(a) Tacks manufacturers.
(b) The pushcart vendors.
(c) The President.
(d) Teachers.
6. What does the truck driver call Mr. Jerusalem's pushcart?
(a) Unsanitary.
(b) An ugly contraption.
(c) A pile of junk.
(d) A baby buggy.
7. Why does Wenda Gambling say there is a traffic problem in New York?
(a) There are too many taxis.
(b) There are too many big trucks.
(c) There are too many immovable objects.
(d) There are too many pedestrians.
8. What is the name of Professor Lyman Cumberly's explanation for the attitude of the truck drivers of New York City?
(a) The Huge Item Theory of Ancient Greece.
(b) The Large Object Theory of History.
(c) The Mammoth Movers Theory of Traffic.
(d) The Big Truck Theory of Relativity.
9. What does Big Moe tell his truck drivers to do if they see children hanging around their trucks?
(a) Find a policeman.
(b) Search them.
(c) Run away.
(d) Clobber them.
10. How long does Old Anna say she has been selling her apples and pears?
(a) Forty years.
(b) Forty-five years.
(c) Fourteen years.
(d) Four years.
11. Who is ordered to search incoming trucks for shipments of peas?
(a) The store owners.
(b) The pushcart vendors.
(c) The truck drivers.
(d) The police.
12. Who are hardest hit by the tacks tax?
(a) Pushcart peddlers.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Children.
(d) Hardware stores.
13. Who is the owner of the pushcart that is the first victim of the pushcart war?
(a) Marvin Seely.
(b) Albert P. Mack.
(c) Mark the Pickle Seller.
(d) Morris the Florist.
14. How does Mr. Posey usually have his peas delivered?
(a) By pushcart.
(b) By Mighty Mammoth.
(c) By car.
(d) By truck.
15. What does Old Anna say the real menace is?
(a) Taxi cabs.
(b) Grocery stores.
(c) Truckers.
(d) Plastic bags.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many tacks are purchased the day after the tax is repealed?
2. Who does Maxie say has the record for the most hits?
3. When does Joey Kafflis make entries into a diary?
4. What does the color red signify on Maxie's map of the battle?
5. What color are the pea shooters?
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