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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 does Mack believe to be the explanation behind the flats?
(a) The other trucking companies caused it.
(b) There was bad rubber.
(c) Aliens caused it.
(d) The pushcart vendors caused it.

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

3. How many days pass after Frank's arrest without a flat?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Thirteen days.
(c) Three days.
(d) Three hours.

4. What is Morris the Florist's pushcart number?
(a) X-105.
(b) BR-229.
(c) X-RAY.
(d) FLWR-10.

5. How does Carlos present his idea to the rest of the pushcart vendors?
(a) Maxie Hammerman translates for him.
(b) He just tells them.
(c) He gives a demonstration.
(d) He writes it down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of hat is being sold in the department store?

2. How long does it take Professor Cumberly to go five blocks in a taxi during a heavy traffic day?

3. How many one hundred-pound bags of peas does the chief of the Pea Tack Squad rip open at Posey's?

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

5. How many Mighty Mammoths does the mayor use to blockage entrances into the city?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the purpose of the map on the wall at Maxie Hammerman's?

6. What happens to Wenda Gambling?

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

8. Who is it that people believe to be the source of the traffic problem?

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

10. What is another name for the first incident of the pushcart war and why?

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