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

2. What is the Pea Tack Squad looking at when they discover Wenda Gambling's order for peas?
(a) The canceled checks.
(b) The company's telephone records.
(c) The bags of peas.
(d) The company ledgers.

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

4. How many one hundred-pound bags of peas does the chief of the Pea Tack Squad rip open at Posey's?
(a) A hundred.
(b) One.
(c) A dozen.
(d) Eighteen.

5. What is it that makes the Police Commissioner think Frank is a crackpot?
(a) His pushcart.
(b) His hat.
(c) His name.
(d) His pea shooter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who questions Frank the Flower once he's at the police station?

2. Who is the only person in New York who might know how many pushcarts there are in the city?

3. What does Big Moe tell his truck drivers to do if they see children hanging around their trucks?

4. Who gives the famous "peanut butter speech?"

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens to Wenda Gambling?

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

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

7. 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.

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

9. Describe the incident that begins the pushcart war.

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

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