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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. Who gives the famous "peanut butter speech?"
(a) Morris the Florist.
(b) Wenda Gambling.
(c) Emmet P. Cudd.
(d) Archie Love.
2. What do the trucking company owners do when the casualties get too high?
(a) Tax the tacks.
(b) Take their trucks off the road.
(c) Hire spotters to watch for pea shooters.
(d) Buy more tires.
3. What does one man suggest Mr. Posey might be hiding in the pea packages?
(a) Pins.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Diamonds .
(d) Tacks.
4. How many peas and pins do the pushcart vendors decide they must buy?
(a) None, they'll build the pins and grow the peas.
(b) As many as they can grow.
(c) A half ton of each.
(d) A ton of each.
5. Who tells the Mayor that the tax has to be lifted?
(a) Tacks manufacturers.
(b) Teachers.
(c) The pushcart vendors.
(d) The President.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who has the idea to take up a collection to buy Morris a new pushcart?
2. How is Maxie Hammerman plotting the "battle?"
3. Who comes up with the idea of how to fight the trucks?
4. Who is it that gives away boxes of tacks to his customers?
5. What does Professor Lyman Cumberly say prompted the pushcart war?
Short Essay Questions
1. How and why does Frank the Flower take the blame for all the flat tires?
2. Give a basic overview of the "peanut butter speech."
3. What does the Pea Tack Squad tell the packaging companies to convince them that they should shut down?
4. What is the attitude of the pushcart vendors with regard to the children taking up their war against the trucks?
5. 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?
6. What do the terms "Don't be a truck" and "You're a crackpot" come to mean after the arrest of Frank the Flower?
7. 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?
8. What is the attitude of the truckers who are doing business in New York during the weeks prior to the pushcart war?
9. What is the pea blockade and who starts it?
10. During the secret meeting of "The Three" big trucking companies, a man named Joey Kafflis makes a comment about the pushcarts. What is Joey's position on the pushcarts?
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