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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 Professor Lyman Cumberly say prompted the pushcart war?
(a) Wenda Gambling's remark about the big trucks.
(b) The heat.
(c) Freddie the Florist's bad attitude.
(d) The number of trucks on the streets.

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

3. What is the fine that is imposed on anyone who leaves a truck parked for longer than an hour?
(a) There is no fine.
(b) $500.
(c) $100.
(d) $50.

4. Why does Wenda Gambling say there is a traffic problem in New York?
(a) There are too many pedestrians.
(b) There are too many taxis.
(c) There are too many big trucks.
(d) There are too many immovable objects.

5. How many peas and pins do the pushcart vendors decide they must buy?
(a) As many as they can grow.
(b) None, they'll build the pins and grow the peas.
(c) A half ton of each.
(d) A ton of each.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of hat is being sold in the department store?

2. What is the name of the company where the peas were purchased?

3. Who is it that gives away boxes of tacks to his customers?

4. How long is it before the pushcart vendors know the truckers have declared war?

5. Who do the Pea Tack Squad call to help gain entrance into Posey's Peas?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Big Moe talks about the fear that the women will become involved in the situation. Why does Big Moe believe women will become involved and what does he say will be the outcome if they do?

3. 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.

4. What happens to Wenda Gambling?

5. How and why does Frank the Flower take the blame for all the flat tires?

6. What is the attitude of the truckers who are doing business in New York during the weeks prior to the pushcart war?

7. What is the reaction of people who see a truck with a flat?

8. What is the purpose of the map on the wall at Maxie Hammerman's?

9. What is Big Moe's argument that Frank the Flower can't be responsible for all the flats?

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

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