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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. What does Joey Kifflis believe is the real reason for "the master plan?"

2. Why doesn't Morris the Florist ever go above Twenty-third Street?

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

4. What does the mayor and city council eventually decide as a way of trying to stop the pea shooters?

5. What is the word the citizens of New York use to protest the tacks tax?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the attitude of the pushcart vendors with regard to the children taking up their war against the trucks?

2. Describe the incident that begins the pushcart war.

3. How does Mr. Jerusalem become involved in the war?

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

5. What is the condition of Posey's plant after the Pea Tack Squad comes in?

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. What is the pea blockade and who starts it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the Festival of Cantaloupes? How does it begin? How is it connected to the pushcart war? Why do you think the festival is still celebrated today?

Essay Topic 2

What are the major points of the Truck Driver's Manifesto? What are the main points of the compromise that comes from the Peace Conference? Compare the Truck Driver's Manifesto to the document that comes out of the Peace Conference.

Essay Topic 3

Describe Mayor Elmer P. Cudd. What kind of person is he? List at least three times when the Mayor changes his position or requests the impossible in order to appease his constituents.

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