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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the world's largest producer of tacks?
(a) Teachers.
(b) The puchcart vendors.
(c) Vermont.
(d) England.

2. Where does Mr. Posey sell most of his peas?
(a) Pushcart vendors.
(b) Restaurants.
(c) Big packaging companies.
(d) Housewives.

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

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

5. What is the word the citizens of New York use to protest the tacks tax?
(a) Unamerican.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Undemocratic.
(d) Unrealistic.

6. Who does Big Moe call to complain about the Police Commissioner?
(a) Frank the Flower.
(b) The other trucking company owners.
(c) Mayor Elmer P. Fudd.
(d) Mayor Emmett P. Cudd.

7. When does Frank the Flower get arrested?
(a) In June.
(b) The ninth day of the pea shooter campaign.
(c) The day after Big Moe's first flat.
(d) The first day of the pea shooter campaign.

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

9. How many days pass after Frank's arrest without a flat?
(a) Thirteen days.
(b) Three days.
(c) Three hours.
(d) Three weeks.

10. When does Joey Kafflis make entries into a diary?
(a) While he's stalled in traffic.
(b) Every morning.
(c) During meetings.
(d) After work.

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

12. What is the purpose of the spotters who ride on the hoods of some trucks?
(a) They are watching for pea pins in the guttters.
(b) They are watching for pea pins falling from the sky.
(c) They are watching for other trucks.
(d) They are watching for pushcart vendors.

13. 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.

14. How many of his 72 trucks is laid up on a single day, according to Big Moe?
(a) 36.
(b) 72.
(c) 70.
(d) 16.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the newspaper headline the day after Frank the Flower's arrest?

2. Who do taxi drivers say is to blame for the heavy traffic in New York?

3. How many tacks are purchased the day after the tax is repealed?

4. How many Mighty Mammoths does the mayor use to blockage entrances into the city?

5. Who has the idea to take up a collection to buy Morris a new pushcart?

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