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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 name is given to the clubs that begin shooting tires?
(a) Frank the Flower Clubs.
(b) Pea Pin Clubs.
(c) Pea Shooter Clubs.
(d) Tire Shooter Clubs.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is causing the next round of truck flats?

2. Where had Wenda Gambling requested that the one ton of peas be delivered?

3. Who are the last motorists to become frightened of the trucks?

4. What kind of hat is being sold in the department store?

5. Who has the idea to take up a collection to buy Morris a new pushcart?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does England get drawn into the battle regarding the tax on tacks?

3. What is the tactic being used by General Anna to cause flats and why?

4. During the secret meeting of "The Three" big trucking companies, a man named Joey Kafflis makes a comment about the pushcarts. What is Joey's position on the pushcarts?

5. What is the purpose of the map on the wall at Maxie Hammerman's?

6. What do the other pushcart vendors decide to do after Frank the Flower is arrested?

7. What is the attitude of the pushcart vendors with regard to the children taking up their war against the trucks?

8. What is the attitude of people who find the trucks off the streets?

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

10. There is a free newspaper that reports that pushcarts are "unsanitary." What other things has this same reporter called unsanitary and why does he make these statements.

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