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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Ms. Portlette sit to take notes of the meeting?
(a) On the floor.
(b) At Big Moe's right.
(c) In a straight chair.
(d) On a mop bucket .

2. What does General Anna say is the first thing the pushcart vendors must not do?
(a) Pay Maxie's bail.
(b) Make more pea shooters.
(c) Surrender.
(d) Send Maxie an apple.

3. What is used as trophies for anyone who hits the target in the middle of the dart board?
(a) A button.
(b) A pea tack.
(c) A darning needle.
(d) A flower.

4. Where do the pushcarts usually gather on Bleecker Street?
(a) Between Sixtieth and Seventieth Avenues.
(b) On the corner next to the Park.
(c) At Sunset Street.
(d) Between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.

5. How many divisions do the pushcart vendors form on the day of the peace march?
(a) Three.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Two .
(d) Twelve.

6. What are Eddie and Maxie drinking after the card game?
(a) Beer.
(b) Root beer.
(c) Cream soda.
(d) Wine.

7. How much warning does Maxie Hammerman have that the Pea Tack Squad are going to raid his shop in search of pea pins?
(a) None.
(b) Thirty minutes.
(c) Two days.
(d) An hour.

8. How many pushcarts gather on Bleecker Street the day after the pushcart war officially ends?
(a) Three.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) One hundred and thirty.

9. How do the pushcart vendors learn about the Mayor's decision regarding pushcarts?
(a) They hear a radio address.
(b) The police arrive with the news.
(c) They read it in the newspaper.
(d) They see a television address.

10. What does Buddy Wisser propose as a compromise to the number of trucks allowed in the city?
(a) The Truck/Pushcart Formula.
(b) The Big Truck/Little Truck Theory.
(c) The Flower Formula.
(d) The Truck Formula.

11. What is Papa Peretz doing at 10:05?
(a) Walting with a customer.
(b) Selling pretzels.
(c) Selling hot dogs.
(d) Setlling flowers.

12. How many pushcarts are destroyed?
(a) Forty-seven.
(b) None.
(c) About eighty.
(d) About eight.

13. Who is driving the truck that encounters the division on Greene Street?
(a) Big Moe.
(b) Maxie Hammerman.
(c) Louie Livergeen.
(d) Albert P. Mack.

14. What does the Mayor say about the meeting between The Three and Maxie Hammerman?
(a) That a meeting wouldn't accomplish anything.
(b) That Maxie can't attend becasue he's to be arrested.
(c) That it will take place at the police station.
(d) That it won't take place.

15. How many hands of poker does Eddie say Maxie played to win the $60,000?
(a) He doesn't say.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Five .
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of truck is Mack driving?

2. What does Papa Paretz give each of the truck drivers who agree to their terms?

3. Where does Mack first stop his truck?

4. Where does the Police Commissioner put his gun after the arrival of The Three?

5. What do the truck drivers threaten to do if the Mayor doesn't meet their demands?

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