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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Professor Lyman Cumberly say prompted the pushcart war?
(a) The number of trucks on the streets.
(b) Wenda Gambling's remark about the big trucks.
(c) Freddie the Florist's bad attitude.
(d) The heat.

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

3. How does Mr. Posey usually have his peas delivered?
(a) By truck.
(b) By car.
(c) By pushcart.
(d) By Mighty Mammoth.

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

5. Why doesn't Morris the Florist ever go above Twenty-third Street?
(a) There is too much traffic.
(b) It's too far to walk.
(c) That's Frank the Flower's territory.
(d) People there don't buy flowers .

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

7. Which of the following is not a member of "The Three?"
(a) Walter Sweet.
(b) Joe Lilly.
(c) Moe Mammoth.
(d) Louie Livergreen.

8. Who are hardest hit by the tacks tax?
(a) Pushcart peddlers.
(b) Children.
(c) Hardware stores.
(d) Teachers.

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

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

11. Who is ordered to search incoming trucks for shipments of peas?
(a) The pushcart vendors.
(b) The store owners.
(c) The police.
(d) The truck drivers.

12. What is the newspaper headline the day after Frank the Flower's arrest?
(a) Bit Moe Sues Frank the Flower.
(b) Big Moe Calls Police Commissioner Big Dope.
(c) Police Commissioner Believes Frank had Friends.
(d) Police Commisioner Calls Frank a Crackpot.

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

14. What does the mayor and city council eventually decide as a way of trying to stop the pea shooters?
(a) Tax tacks for everyone.
(b) Tax tacks for anyone over ten.
(c) Tax tacks for anyone under 21.
(d) Tax tacks for crackpots.

15. What is the name of Professor Lyman Cumberly's explanation for the attitude of the truck drivers of New York City?
(a) The Large Object Theory of History.
(b) The Big Truck Theory of Relativity.
(c) The Huge Item Theory of Ancient Greece.
(d) The Mammoth Movers Theory of Traffic.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many peas and pins do the pushcart vendors decide they must buy?

2. Who tells the Mayor that the tax has to be lifted?

3. What is "The Day the Traffic Stopped?"

4. Who is the world's largest producer of tacks?

5. Who is it that gives away boxes of tacks to his customers?

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