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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 3: Our Street Folk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the city of London use several tons of per year?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Corn.
(c) Coal.
(d) Flour.

2. What were the street folk families like?
(a) Often comfortable financially or even wealthy.
(b) Most of them do not even know who their parents are.
(c) They pretty much ran the gamut, but generally very poor.
(d) They were often families that worked at the lowest echelons of society, such as chimney sweeps.

3. What did a lodging manager do when a child brought in a stolen item for rent?
(a) Called the constable.
(b) Gave the child half of what it was worth.
(c) Gave the child a small fraction of its value and pawned it.
(d) Let the child stay for the night in exchange for the item.

4. What did one Jewish trader claim to have purchased?
(a) A bishop's miter.
(b) An old cloak belonging to the King.
(c) A knight's sword.
(d) An old cloak belonging to the Queen.

5. What did the crossing sweep who Mayhew interviewed work at before finding an open intersection?
(a) Selling newspapers.
(b) Selling matches.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Shining lanterns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of low lodging house segregated the renters by sex?

2. What were costermongers called who carried their wares on their backs?

3. What did the mutual aid societies do?

4. What did Mayhew say was the reason people from wealthier families became patterers?

5. How did Mayhew term the young men between 12 and 20 years old who had no job and loitered in the streets?

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