View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Professor Lyman Cumberly say prompted the pushcart war?
(a) Freddie the Florist's bad attitude.
(b) The number of trucks on the streets.
(c) Wenda Gambling's remark about the big trucks.
(d) The heat.

2. What does Joey Kifflis believe is the real reason for "the master plan?"
(a) To get more money for the truck drivers.
(b) To declare war on the pushcarts.
(c) There's no purpose.
(d) To make traffic flow better.

3. Who has the idea to take up a collection to buy Morris a new pushcart?
(a) Frank the Flower.
(b) Maxie Hammerman.
(c) Papa Peretz.
(d) Old Anna.

4. How long does it take Professor Cumberly to go five blocks in a taxi during a heavy traffic day?
(a) Fifteen minutes.
(b) Forty minutes.
(c) Four hours.
(d) Five hours.

5. What is the name of Professor Lyman Cumberly's explanation for the attitude of the truck drivers of New York City?
(a) The Mammoth Movers Theory of Traffic.
(b) The Huge Item Theory of Ancient Greece.
(c) The Big Truck Theory of Relativity.
(d) The Large Object Theory of History.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Maxie Hammerman plotting the "battle?"

2. Who comes up with the idea of how to fight the trucks?

3. How long does Old Anna say she has been selling her apples and pears?

4. What does Old Anna say the real menace is?

5. What does the truck driver call Mr. Jerusalem's pushcart?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 265 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample