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

2. Who are the last motorists to become frightened of the trucks?
(a) The movie stars.
(b) The pedestrians.
(c) The pushcart vendors.
(d) The taxi drivers.

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

4. How many tires does Frank the Flower really believe he has killed?
(a) Seventy or Eighty.
(b) Fourteen or Fifteen.
(c) Seventeen or Eighteen.
(d) Seven or Eight.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the newspaper headline the day after Frank the Flower's arrest?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the attitude of the pushcart vendors toward the tacks tax?

4. How does Mr. Jerusalem become involved in the war?

5. How does Carlos come up with the idea of how to fight the trucks?

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. What does the Pea Tack Squad tell the packaging companies to convince them that they should shut down?

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