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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the company where the peas were purchased?
(a) Posey's Pea Company.
(b) The Pea Place.
(c) The Black-Eyed Pea.
(d) Wenda Gambling.

2. Where does the driver of the first pushcart destroyed in the war land?
(a) A pile of daffodils
(b) An alley
(c) A pickle barrel
(d) A truck

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

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

5. Prior to the sale of the ton of peas to the pushcart vendors, what had been Mr. Posey's largest sale?
(a) Three hundred pounds.
(b) Thirty tons.
(c) Three tons.
(d) Thirty pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the pushcart vendors hide their ammunition following Frank's arrest?

2. How many of his 72 trucks is laid up on a single day, according to Big Moe?

3. What is the word the citizens of New York use to protest the tacks tax?

4. What does the color gold signify on Maxie's man of the battle?

5. What is the purpose of the spotters who ride on the hoods of some trucks?

Short Essay Questions

1. How and why does Frank the Flower take the blame for all the flat tires?

2. Who shot a woman with a pea pin and why?

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

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

5. What is Big Moe's argument that Frank the Flower can't be responsible for all the flats?

6. Who is it that people believe to be the source of the traffic problem?

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

8. What do the terms "Don't be a truck" and "You're a crackpot" come to mean after the arrest of Frank the Flower?

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

10. Big Moe talks about the fear that the women will become involved in the situation. Why does Big Moe believe women will become involved and what does he say will be the outcome if they do?

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