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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Mr. Posey sell most of his peas?
2. How many one hundred-pound bags of peas does the chief of the Pea Tack Squad rip open at Posey's?
3. What is Big Moe's first explanation for the number of flats?
4. What color are the pea shooters?
5. What is the purpose of the spotters who ride on the hoods of some trucks?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the terms "Don't be a truck" and "You're a crackpot" come to mean after the arrest of Frank the Flower?
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. What is the attitude of the pushcart vendors with regard to the children taking up their war against the trucks?
5. Give a basic overview of the "peanut butter speech."
6. What happens to Wenda Gambling?
7. Describe the incident that begins the pushcart war.
8. There is a free newspaper that reports that pushcarts are "unsanitary." What other things has this same reporter called unsanitary and why does he make these statements.
9. What is the attitude of people who find the trucks off the streets?
10. During the secret meeting of "The Three" big trucking companies, a man named Joey Kafflis makes a comment about the pushcarts. What is Joey's position on the pushcarts?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What prompts the war and what keeps it going? Did either side have options other than the actions they took? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
There comes a point where children get involved in the battle by shooting out truck tires with pea shooters. What happens to the language people use as this situation evolves? Describe this "language," including the code names and how it might have impacted the language of the people of the period. Do you consider the sayings funny?
Essay Topic 3
Who is Wenda Gambling? What is her role in the story? What might have been different if she hadn't been part of the story?
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