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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 has General Anna discovered about her ability to aim?
(a) She aims better than anyone.
(b) She misses about half.
(c) She can't aim at all.
(d) She hasn't tried.

2. Which of the following is not a member of "The Three?"
(a) Joe Lilly.
(b) Louie Livergreen.
(c) Moe Mammoth.
(d) Walter Sweet.

3. What is written on Eddie Moroney's pushcart?
(a) Home Delivered Flowers.
(b) Circus Posters, Home Delivery.
(c) Ice Cream, Home Delivery.
(d) Coal & Ice, Home Delivered.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one theory about how Frank could have caused all the flats?

2. What happened to the enlargement of Marvin Seely's picture of the first incident of the pushcart war?

3. What does the newspaper advertisement say about the hat?

4. How long has Morris the Florist been in business at the opening of the pushcart war?

5. What does Big Moe tell his truck drivers to do if they see children hanging around their trucks?

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 people who find the trucks off the streets?

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

5. Why is Wenda Gambing included on the panel of traffic experts attempting to explain why the traffic had come to a complete standstill?

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

7. What is Mayor Emmett P. Cudd's interest in the trucking companies?

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

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

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

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