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

2. What does Old Anna say the real menace is?
(a) Taxi cabs.
(b) Plastic bags.
(c) Grocery stores.
(d) Truckers.

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

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

5. What does Morris the Florist begin offering at a discount to children under ten?
(a) Pea shooters.
(b) Peas.
(c) Pins.
(d) Flowers suitable for hat bands.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Old Anna say she has been selling her apples and pears?

2. What does the mayor and city council eventually decide as a way of trying to stop the pea shooters?

3. What is the Pea Tack Squad looking at when they discover Wenda Gambling's order for peas?

4. What does the color gold signify on Maxie's man of the battle?

5. Who turns Frank the Flower in for shooting tires?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the attitude of the pushcart vendors toward the tacks tax?

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

5. Why is Wenda Gambing included on the panel of traffic experts attempting to explain why the traffic had come to a complete standstill?

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

7. How does Old Anna come to be known as General Anna?

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

9. What is the attitude of the pushcart vendors with regard to the children taking up their war against the trucks?

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

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