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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 is Wenda Gambling headed when she gets caught up behind the truck?
(a) Her sister's.
(b) Her cousin's.
(c) Her mother's.
(d) Her grandmother's.

2. How many tires does Frank the Flower really believe he has killed?
(a) Fourteen or Fifteen.
(b) Seven or Eight.
(c) Seventeen or Eighteen.
(d) Seventy or Eighty.

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

4. What is on the truck that's involved in the first incident of the pushcart war?
(a) Ninety dozen donuts.
(b) Nineteen hundred pickles.
(c) Ninety dozen piano stools.
(d) Ninety bunches of daffodils.

5. Who gives the famous "peanut butter speech?"
(a) Emmet P. Cudd.
(b) Morris the Florist.
(c) Archie Love.
(d) Wenda Gambling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fine that is imposed on anyone who leaves a truck parked for longer than an hour?

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

3. What is the name of Professor Lyman Cumberly's explanation for the attitude of the truck drivers of New York City?

4. What does the color red signify on Maxie's map of the battle?

5. What is Big Moe's first explanation for the number of flats?

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. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the condition of Posey's plant after the Pea Tack Squad comes in?

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