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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells the Mayor that the tax has to be lifted?
(a) Teachers.
(b) The President.
(c) Tacks manufacturers.
(d) The pushcart vendors.

2. What does Big Moe tell his truck drivers to do if they see children hanging around their trucks?
(a) Find a policeman.
(b) Search them.
(c) Clobber them.
(d) Run away.

3. Who buys the pins and peas for the pushcart vendors?
(a) General Anna.
(b) Wenda Gambling.
(c) Big Moe.
(d) The Mayor.

4. What has General Anna discovered about her ability to aim?
(a) She can't aim at all.
(b) She misses about half.
(c) She aims better than anyone.
(d) She hasn't tried.

5. What is on the truck that's involved in the first incident of the pushcart war?
(a) Nineteen hundred pickles.
(b) Ninety dozen piano stools.
(c) Ninety bunches of daffodils.
(d) Ninety dozen donuts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the company where the peas were purchased?

2. Where is Wenda Gambling headed when she gets caught up behind the truck?

3. How do truck drivers get their perishable goods delivered if they have a flat?

4. What does Professor Lyman Cumberly say prompted the pushcart war?

5. What do the trucking company owners do when the casualties get too high?

(see the answer key)

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