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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the word the citizens of New York use to protest the tacks tax?
(a) Unamerican.
(b) Undemocratic.
(c) Unhappy.
(d) Unrealistic.

2. How does Carlos present his idea to the rest of the pushcart vendors?
(a) He writes it down.
(b) Maxie Hammerman translates for him.
(c) He just tells them.
(d) He gives a demonstration.

3. Who comes up with the idea of how to fight the trucks?
(a) Old Anna.
(b) Maxie Hammerman.
(c) Carlos.
(d) Eddie Maroney.

4. Who does Big Moe call to complain about the Police Commissioner?
(a) Mayor Elmer P. Fudd.
(b) Frank the Flower.
(c) Mayor Emmett P. Cudd.
(d) The other trucking company owners.

5. How long is it before the pushcart vendors know the truckers have declared war?
(a) Over a week.
(b) Over a month.
(c) Over a year.
(d) Over six months.

6. What do the Posey's use as weapons in their attempt to keep the Pea Tack Squad out?
(a) Locks.
(b) Pea shooters.
(c) Sacks of peas.
(d) Rocks.

7. How many sections of the city report flats once they begin occurring again?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

8. How many peas and pins do the pushcart vendors decide they must buy?
(a) A ton of each.
(b) As many as they can grow.
(c) None, they'll build the pins and grow the peas.
(d) A half ton of each.

9. How many of his 72 trucks is laid up on a single day, according to Big Moe?
(a) 70.
(b) 36.
(c) 16.
(d) 72.

10. What is it that makes the Police Commissioner think Frank is a crackpot?
(a) His name.
(b) His pea shooter.
(c) His hat.
(d) His pushcart.

11. What is Morris the Florist's pushcart number?
(a) FLWR-10.
(b) BR-229.
(c) X-105.
(d) X-RAY.

12. How is Maxie Hammerman plotting the "battle?"
(a) With police and newspaper reports.
(b) With pea-pins stuck in a map.
(c) With red marks on a map.
(d) With photos.

13. What kind of hat is being sold in the department store?
(a) $19.95.
(b) $39.95.
(c) $49.95.
(d) $29.95.

14. Why does Wenda Gambling say there is a traffic problem in New York?
(a) There are too many taxis.
(b) There are too many immovable objects.
(c) There are too many pedestrians.
(d) There are too many big trucks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the three sizes of trucks operated by Mammoth Moving Company?

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

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

4. Prior to the sale of the ton of peas to the pushcart vendors, what had been Mr. Posey's largest sale?

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

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