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

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

3. When does Frank the Flower get arrested?
(a) The ninth day of the pea shooter campaign.
(b) The day after Big Moe's first flat.
(c) In June.
(d) The first day of the pea shooter campaign.

4. What is on the truck that's involved in the first incident of the pushcart war?
(a) Nineteen hundred pickles.
(b) Ninety bunches of daffodils.
(c) Ninety dozen donuts.
(d) Ninety dozen piano stools.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are the pea shooters?

2. How many tacks are purchased the day after the tax is repealed?

3. What does Mack believe to be the explanation behind the flats?

4. How many trucks have flats during the first few minutes of the attack?

5. How long does Old Anna say she has been selling her apples and pears?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Mr. Posey's resistance to being closed by the Pea Tack Squad result in the discovery that the pushcart vendors are behind the flats?

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

5. Give a basic overview of the "peanut butter speech."

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

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

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

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

10. Describe the incident that begins the pushcart war.

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