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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maxie say you must have in order to fight a war?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Peas.
(c) Ammunition.
(d) Money.

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

3. Where is the statue of General Anna?
(a) Beecker Street.
(b) The City Library.
(c) Tompkins Sqaure Park.
(d) City Hall.

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

5. What happens to General Anna's pushcart?
(a) The wheel is ripped off.
(b) The tire is flattened.
(c) The handle is broken.
(d) The bumper is smashed.

6. What does Papa Paretz give each of the truck drivers who agree to their terms?
(a) An apple and a pear.
(b) A handful of flowers.
(c) A hot dog.
(d) A bag of pretzels.

7. How many police cars are sent to the scene at Beecker Street?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Fifty.

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

9. What prompts the many letters to the editor about the pushcarts?
(a) The photo of Mack hitting Harry the Hot Dog.
(b) The story of Mack hitting General Anna.
(c) The photo of Mack hitting Morris the Florist.
(d) The story of Mack hitting Frank the Flower.

10. Who breaks Maxie Hammerman's radio?
(a) Mr. Jerusalem.
(b) Maxie Hammerman.
(c) Albert P. Mack.
(d) General Anna.

11. Who does the Police Commissioner report to after his interview with Maxie Hammerman?
(a) That he believes Maxie is lying.
(b) That he doesn't know what to think.
(c) That he sees no reason to keep Maxie in jail.
(d) That Maxie will eventually break under the pressure.

12. What role does General Anna say she wants to play in the plan proposed by Mr. Jerusalem?
(a) She wants to be on the front lines.
(b) She wants to direct traffic.
(c) She wants to quit.
(d) She wants no part of it.

13. Where does Maxie say he plans to be when The Three come to his shop?
(a) At the Police Commissioner's house.
(b) At his shop.
(c) At Eddie Maroney's.
(d) At a meeting of the pushcart vendors.

14. What is Mr. Jerusalem's plan called?
(a) The Peaceful Pushcarts.
(b) Pretty Sneaky.
(c) The Peach March.
(d) The Public March.

15. Who claims ownership of the pea shooters after the Pea Tack Squad finds them?
(a) Maxie Hammerman.
(b) Mr. Posey.
(c) Frank the Flower.
(d) Wenda Gambling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Maxie invite to his meeting with The Three?

2. Why does the Police Commissioner say he cannot arrest all the pushcart vendors?

3. What does Buddy Wisser propose as a compromise to the number of trucks allowed in the city?

4. Who built General Anna's pushcart?

5. Where is Mack's cell?

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