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

2. What does the mayor initially propose to do to stop the pea shooters?
(a) Tax tacks for anyone under 21.
(b) Tax tacks for anyone over ten.
(c) Tax tacks for crackpots.
(d) Tax tacks for pushcart vendors.

3. 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.

4. What does Big Moe tell his truck drivers to do if they see children hanging around their trucks?
(a) Clobber them.
(b) Search them.
(c) Find a policeman.
(d) Run away.

5. Where had Wenda Gambling requested that the one ton of peas be delivered?
(a) Wenda Gamblin's apartment.
(b) Wenda Gambling's studio.
(c) Wenda Gamblin's pea farm.
(d) Maxie Hammerman's shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one theory about how Frank could have caused all the flats?

2. How many days pass after Frank's arrest without a flat?

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

4. Who tells the Mayor that the tax has to be lifted?

5. When the children take up the war, at what kinds of tires do they shoot?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How and why does Frank the Flower take the blame for all the flat tires?

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

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

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