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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Big Moe tell his truck drivers to do if they see children hanging around their trucks?
(a) Search them.
(b) Clobber them.
(c) Find a policeman.
(d) Run away.

2. What does the color red signify on Maxie's map of the battle?
(a) A flat on a taxi or car.
(b) A flat on a normal-sized truck.
(c) A flat on a big truck.
(d) A flat on a pushcart.

3. What do the Posey's use as weapons in their attempt to keep the Pea Tack Squad out?
(a) Locks.
(b) Sacks of peas.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Pea shooters.

4. How many trucks have flats during the first few minutes of the attack?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Seventy-nine.
(c) Ninety-seven.
(d) Seventy.

5. What is the name of the company where the peas were purchased?
(a) The Black-Eyed Pea.
(b) Posey's Pea Company.
(c) Wenda Gambling.
(d) The Pea Place.

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

7. What happens after the lady driver tells the cab driver "Well done" for hitting her car?
(a) He tows her for repairs.
(b) He marries her.
(c) He pays for her repairs.
(d) All the above.

8. What is "The Day the Traffic Stopped?"
(a) A book.
(b) A television program.
(c) A theory.
(d) A radio program.

9. How long is it before the pushcart vendors know the truckers have declared war?
(a) Over a year.
(b) Over a week.
(c) Over a month.
(d) Over six months.

10. Who comes up with the idea of how to fight the trucks?
(a) Carlos.
(b) Maxie Hammerman.
(c) Old Anna.
(d) Eddie Maroney.

11. When the policeman asks Frank about the pea shooter, what is Frankie's explanation?
(a) That it's a straw.
(b) That it's his son's pea shooter.
(c) That it's a pencil.
(d) That he won't answer the question.

12. What does one man suggest Mr. Posey might be hiding in the pea packages?
(a) Pins.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Diamonds .
(d) Tacks.

13. How many tires does Frank the Flower really believe he has killed?
(a) Seventeen or Eighteen.
(b) Fourteen or Fifteen.
(c) Seventy or Eighty.
(d) Seven or Eight.

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

15. Who tells the Mayor that the tax has to be lifted?
(a) Tacks manufacturers.
(b) The President.
(c) Teachers.
(d) The pushcart vendors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Professor Lyman Cumberly say prompted the pushcart war?

2. Who does Big Moe call to complain about the Police Commissioner?

3. How long does Old Anna say she has been selling her apples and pears?

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

5. Who questions Frank the Flower once he's at the police station?

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