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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Pea Tack Squad looking at when they discover Wenda Gambling's order for peas?
(a) The company's telephone records.
(b) The bags of peas.
(c) The canceled checks.
(d) The company ledgers.

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

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

4. What name is given to the clubs that begin shooting tires?
(a) Pea Shooter Clubs.
(b) Pea Pin Clubs.
(c) Frank the Flower Clubs.
(d) Tire Shooter Clubs.

5. Who questions Frank the Flower once he's at the police station?
(a) The Police Commissioner.
(b) The arresting officer.
(c) A spotter for the trucking company.
(d) Maxie Hammanman.

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

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

8. What is written on Eddie Moroney's pushcart?
(a) Ice Cream, Home Delivery.
(b) Home Delivered Flowers.
(c) Circus Posters, Home Delivery.
(d) Coal & Ice, Home Delivered.

9. Who turns Frank the Flower in for shooting tires?
(a) A spotter for a trucking company.
(b) The Police Commissioner.
(c) Maxie Hammerman.
(d) The arresting officer.

10. How long does Old Anna say she has been selling her apples and pears?
(a) Forty years.
(b) Forty-five years.
(c) Four years.
(d) Fourteen years.

11. On what date does the Mayor order the Pea Blockade?
(a) May 4.
(b) May 11.
(c) May 17.
(d) May 22.

12. What kind of hat is being sold in the department store?
(a) $19.95.
(b) $39.95.
(c) $29.95.
(d) $49.95.

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

14. Prior to the sale of the ton of peas to the pushcart vendors, what had been Mr. Posey's largest sale?
(a) Three hundred pounds.
(b) Three tons.
(c) Thirty tons.
(d) Thirty pounds.

15. Where do the pushcart vendors hide their ammunition following Frank's arrest?
(a) Mr. Jerusalem's pushcart.
(b) Big Moe's warehouse.
(c) Maxie Hammerman's basement.
(d) General Anna's apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only person in New York who might know how many pushcarts there are in the city?

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

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

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

5. What do the Posey's use as weapons in their attempt to keep the Pea Tack Squad out?

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