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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 is Papa Peretz doing at 10:05?
(a) Setlling flowers.
(b) Selling hot dogs.
(c) Selling pretzels.
(d) Walting with a customer.

2. What happens to make Mack lose control of his truck?
(a) General Anna screams.
(b) A pushcart axle crashes into the windshield.
(c) A load of apples crashes into the windshield.
(d) He dodges a pedestrian.

3. Why does Ms. Portlette not stay until the end of the meeting?
(a) Her pencil broke.
(b) She has three more offices to map.
(c) She has run out of paper.
(d) She is tired of sitting.

4. Which of the divisions runs into trouble during the peace march?
(a) The one led by Harry Hot Dog.
(b) The one led By Papa Peretz.
(c) The one led by General Anna.
(d) The one led by Mr. Jerusalem.

5. How much does Maxie win during the game?
(a) $60,000.
(b) $14.50.
(c) $183.25.
(d) $13,600.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the pushcart vendors learn about the Mayor's decision regarding pushcarts?

2. What does Maxie say is the purpose of the gold pins?

3. What does Papa Paretz give each of the truck drivers who agree to their terms?

4. What does Maxie say all the pushcart vendors should do immediately?

5. How many people are arrested on Beecker Street?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Miriam Portlette take notes of the meeting of The Three?

2. What is the annual festival named for the Battle at Beecker Street and why?

3. What does Maxie Hammerman say when the Police Commissioner asks why Maxie is called the Pushcart King?

4. What is it that goes through Mack's mind and makes him crash into the pushcarts?

5. What is the attitude of Mayor Emmet P. Cudd to the many letters to the editor being printed in the newspapers?

6. What is the Flower Formula and what does Professor Cumberly say could be done with that formula?

7. Why is the truce so much harder on the pushcart vendors than on the truck drivers?

8. What does Frank know about the pushcart war and how does he know these details?

9. What is Maxie's plan to deal with The Three?

10. How does Maxie explain his consistent winnings at the poker table?

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