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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does General Anna get a message in to Maxie?

2. Why does the Police Commissioner go to Mack's cell?

3. Who attends the meeting called by The Three following the poker game at Maxie Hammerman's?

4. What does Maxie say he's paying for with the check he writes to Big Moe?

5. What do people throw at the trucks on Beecker Street?

Short Essay Questions

1. List two ways the movie of the pushcart war differed from the actual events.

2. What is the Flower Formula and what does Professor Cumberly say could be done with that formula?

3. What is it that goes through Mack's mind and makes him crash into the pushcarts?

4. Who is Alice Myles and what is Maxie Hammerman's reaction to her?

5. What is Maxie's plan to deal with The Three?

6. What are the four demands made by the truckers in their manifesto?

7. What is Maxie's theory of war with regard to money?

8. List at least four of the conditions of the peace treaty.

9. What role do the pushcart vendors play in the battle at Beecker Street?

10. What does Maxie Hammerman say when the Police Commissioner asks why Maxie is called the Pushcart King?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Buddy Wisser? What is his role in the pushcart war? Was his role vital to the outcome of the war? What might have happened if Wisser hadn't been in the right place at the right time?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the relationship between Mr. Jerusalem and Solomon Livergreen. What is is about that relationship that prompts Mr. Jerusalem to become involved in the war by shooting out truck tires?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Miriam Portlette and how does she become involved in the situation? What is the document she produces? What are the contents of that document.?

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