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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mack believe to be the explanation behind the flats?
(a) There was bad rubber.
(b) The pushcart vendors caused it.
(c) Aliens caused it.
(d) The other trucking companies caused it.

2. How long does it take Professor Cumberly to go five blocks in a taxi during a heavy traffic day?
(a) Four hours.
(b) Forty minutes.
(c) Fifteen minutes.
(d) Five hours.

3. 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) Buy more tires.
(d) Take their trucks off the road.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many one hundred-pound bags of peas does the chief of the Pea Tack Squad rip open at Posey's?

2. What is the name of Professor Lyman Cumberly's explanation for the attitude of the truck drivers of New York City?

3. When does Joey Kafflis make entries into a diary?

4. Which of the following is not a member of "The Three?"

5. What has General Anna discovered about her ability to aim?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mr. Posey's resistance to being closed by the Pea Tack Squad result in the discovery that the pushcart vendors are behind the flats?

2. Who shot a woman with a pea pin and why?

3. How does Mr. Jerusalem become involved in the war?

4. What is Mayor Emmett P. Cudd's interest in the trucking companies?

5. There is a free newspaper that reports that pushcarts are "unsanitary." What other things has this same reporter called unsanitary and why does he make these statements.

6. Give a basic overview of the "peanut butter speech."

7. What do the terms "Don't be a truck" and "You're a crackpot" come to mean after the arrest of Frank the Flower?

8. What is another name for the first incident of the pushcart war and why?

9. What do the other pushcart vendors decide to do after Frank the Flower is arrested?

10. What is the condition of Posey's plant after the Pea Tack Squad comes in?

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