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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 is on the truck that's involved in the first incident of the pushcart war?

2. What happened to the enlargement of Marvin Seely's picture of the first incident of the pushcart war?

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

4. Who does Maxie say has the record for the most hits?

5. Who is it that gives away boxes of tacks to his customers?

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. What is the tactic being used by General Anna to cause flats and why?

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

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

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

6. How does Carlos come up with the idea of how to fight the trucks?

7. What do the other pushcart vendors decide to do after Frank the Flower is arrested?

8. How does Old Anna come to be known as General Anna?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the poker game arranged by Maxie Hammerman. Who attends? Why are each of them in attendance?

Essay Topic 3

What prompts the war and what keeps it going? Did either side have options other than the actions they took? Why or why not?

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