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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the enlargement of Marvin Seely's picture of the first incident of the pushcart war?
(a) It's in Buddy Wiser's office.
(b) It's in the Museum of the City of New York.
(c) It was used in court.
(d) It was destroyed.

2. What is one theory about how Frank could have caused all the flats?
(a) He had a helicopter.
(b) He was a very good shot.
(c) He could run very fast.
(d) He had a car .

3. What do the trucking company owners do when the casualties get too high?
(a) Take their trucks off the road.
(b) Hire spotters to watch for pea shooters.
(c) Buy more tires.
(d) Tax the tacks.

4. How long does Old Anna say she has been selling her apples and pears?
(a) Four years.
(b) Forty years.
(c) Fourteen years.
(d) Forty-five years.

5. When does Joey Kafflis make entries into a diary?
(a) While he's stalled in traffic.
(b) After work.
(c) During meetings.
(d) Every morning.

6. Who turns Frank the Flower in for shooting tires?
(a) A spotter for a trucking company.
(b) The Police Commissioner.
(c) The arresting officer.
(d) Maxie Hammerman.

7. What does Wenda Gambling have to eat on the night after she gets stuck behind the truck?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Dry oatmeal.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Oatmeal cookies.

8. Where is Wenda Gambling headed when she gets caught up behind the truck?
(a) Her cousin's.
(b) Her grandmother's.
(c) Her mother's.
(d) Her sister's.

9. Who are hardest hit by the tacks tax?
(a) Hardware stores.
(b) Children.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Pushcart peddlers.

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

11. What does Morris the Florist begin offering at a discount to children under ten?
(a) Flowers suitable for hat bands.
(b) Pins.
(c) Pea shooters.
(d) Peas.

12. How many trucks have flats during the first few minutes of the attack?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Seventy-nine.
(c) Ninety-seven.
(d) Seventy.

13. What is the newspaper headline the day after Frank the Flower's arrest?
(a) Big Moe Calls Police Commissioner Big Dope.
(b) Police Commisioner Calls Frank a Crackpot.
(c) Police Commissioner Believes Frank had Friends.
(d) Bit Moe Sues Frank the Flower.

14. What is Big Moe's first explanation for the number of flats?
(a) That the other trucking companies are behind it.
(b) That the tires he bought were rotten.
(c) That the pushcart vendors are behind it.
(d) That the aliens are behind it.

15. How many Mighty Mammoths does the mayor use to blockage entrances into the city?
(a) Ninty-three.
(b) Nine.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Twenty-Nine.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date does the Mayor order the Pea Blockade?

2. Who is the owner of the pushcart that is the first victim of the pushcart war?

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

4. When does Frank the Flower get arrested?

5. Who gives the famous "peanut butter speech?"

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