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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who do the Pea Tack Squad call to help gain entrance into Posey's Peas?
(a) The Fire Department.
(b) The Police Department.
(c) The Pushcart Vendors.
(d) The Neighborhood Watch.

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

4. When the children take up the war, at what kinds of tires do they shoot?
(a) All vehicles.
(b) Trucks, cars and bicycles.
(c) Only trucks.
(d) Trucks and cars.

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

6. What is on the truck that's involved in the first incident of the pushcart war?
(a) Ninety dozen piano stools.
(b) Ninety bunches of daffodils.
(c) Nineteen hundred pickles.
(d) Ninety dozen donuts.

7. Who is causing the next round of truck flats?
(a) Harry the Hot Dog.
(b) Children.
(c) All the pushcart vendors.
(d) General Anna.

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

9. Where does the driver of the first pushcart destroyed in the war land?
(a) A pile of daffodils
(b) An alley
(c) A pickle barrel
(d) A truck

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

11. What do the trucking company owners do when the casualties get too high?
(a) Take their trucks off the road.
(b) Buy more tires.
(c) Tax the tacks.
(d) Hire spotters to watch for pea shooters.

12. How many one hundred-pound bags of peas does the chief of the Pea Tack Squad rip open at Posey's?
(a) A dozen.
(b) A hundred.
(c) One.
(d) Eighteen.

13. What does the newspaper advertisement say about the hat?
(a) That they're soon going to be sold out.
(b) That it's a traffic stopper.
(c) That Wenda Gambling is wearing them.
(d) That there is a limited supply.

14. What has General Anna discovered about her ability to aim?
(a) She aims better than anyone.
(b) She can't aim at all.
(c) She misses about half.
(d) She hasn't tried.

15. How is Maxie Hammerman plotting the "battle?"
(a) With photos.
(b) With pea-pins stuck in a map.
(c) With red marks on a map.
(d) With police and newspaper reports.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fine that is imposed on anyone who leaves a truck parked for longer than an hour?

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the three sizes of trucks operated by Mammoth Moving Company?

3. What is it that makes the Police Commissioner think Frank is a crackpot?

4. Where do the pushcart vendors hide their ammunition following Frank's arrest?

5. How does Carlos present his idea to the rest of the pushcart vendors?

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