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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 is one theory about how Frank could have caused all the flats?
(a) He could run very fast.
(b) He was a very good shot.
(c) He had a car .
(d) He had a helicopter.

2. What do the trucking company owners do when the casualties get too high?
(a) Take their trucks off the road.
(b) Tax the tacks.
(c) Buy more tires.
(d) Hire spotters to watch for pea shooters.

3. What is Big Moe's first explanation for the number of flats?
(a) That the other trucking companies are behind it.
(b) That the aliens are behind it.
(c) That the tires he bought were rotten.
(d) That the pushcart vendors are behind it.

4. Who has the idea to take up a collection to buy Morris a new pushcart?
(a) Papa Peretz.
(b) Old Anna.
(c) Maxie Hammerman.
(d) Frank the Flower.

5. Who do taxi drivers say is to blame for the heavy traffic in New York?
(a) The people who walk.
(b) The other taxis.
(c) The pushcarts.
(d) The people who drive their private cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Carlos present his idea to the rest of the pushcart vendors?

2. What is written on Eddie Moroney's pushcart?

3. What is "The Day the Traffic Stopped?"

4. Where is Wenda Gambling headed when she gets caught up behind the truck?

5. What is Morris the Florist's pushcart number?

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. What is the attitude of people who find the trucks off the streets?

3. What is the pea blockade and who starts it?

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

5. How does Carlos come up with the idea of how to fight the trucks?

6. What does the Pea Tack Squad tell the packaging companies to convince them that they should shut down?

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

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

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

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

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