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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 designed into the dart board in Frank's cell?
(a) Flags.
(b) Darts.
(c) Pushcarts.
(d) Trucks.

2. Who attends the meeting called by The Three following the poker game at Maxie Hammerman's?
(a) All the pushcart vendors.
(b) All the truck drivers.
(c) The Three and the Police Commissioner.
(d) The Three and the Mayor.

3. What does Buddy Wisser propose as a compromise to the number of trucks allowed in the city?
(a) The Truck Formula.
(b) The Truck/Pushcart Formula.
(c) The Flower Formula.
(d) The Big Truck/Little Truck Theory.

4. How many divisions do the pushcart vendors form on the day of the peace march?
(a) Two .
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Three.
(d) Twelve.

5. What time do the pushcart vendors assemble for the march?
(a) 7:30 in the morning.
(b) 6:30 in the morning.
(c) 7:30 at night.
(d) 8:30 in the morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does General Anna say should be a condition of the peace?

2. Why does the Police Commissioner say he cannot arrest all the pushcart vendors?

3. How many people does the Mayor say signed the manifesto?

4. Who breaks Maxie Hammerman's radio?

5. Where does Mr. Jerusalem spend the night?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Alice Myles and what is Maxie Hammerman's reaction to her?

3. Describe the meeting between the truck drivers and the pushcart vendors led by Harry Hot Dog and Mr. Jerusalem.

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

5. List two ways the movie of the pushcart war differed from the actual events.

6. How do the notes come to the attention of the pushcart vendors?

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

8. What role do the pushcart vendors play in the battle at Beecker Street?

9. What does General Anna say to Maxie Hammerman when she sees the repairs done to her pushcart, and what is Maxie's reaction?

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

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