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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 written on Eddie Moroney's pushcart?
(a) Circus Posters, Home Delivery.
(b) Ice Cream, Home Delivery.
(c) Home Delivered Flowers.
(d) Coal & Ice, Home Delivered.

2. Where do the pushcart vendors hide their ammunition following Frank's arrest?
(a) General Anna's apartment.
(b) Big Moe's warehouse.
(c) Maxie Hammerman's basement.
(d) Mr. Jerusalem's pushcart.

3. What does the color red signify on Maxie's map of the battle?
(a) A flat on a pushcart.
(b) A flat on a normal-sized truck.
(c) A flat on a taxi or car.
(d) A flat on a big truck.

4. What does one man suggest Mr. Posey might be hiding in the pea packages?
(a) Pins.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Diamonds .
(d) Tacks.

5. What is the newspaper headline the day after Frank the Flower's arrest?
(a) Police Commisioner Calls Frank a Crackpot.
(b) Bit Moe Sues Frank the Flower.
(c) Big Moe Calls Police Commissioner Big Dope.
(d) Police Commissioner Believes Frank had Friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the three sizes of trucks operated by Mammoth Moving Company?

2. How many of his 72 trucks is laid up on a single day, according to Big Moe?

3. Who has the idea to take up a collection to buy Morris a new pushcart?

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

5. What name is given to the clubs that begin shooting tires?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What is the tactic being used by General Anna to cause flats and why?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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