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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2: Of the Street-Jews.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of costermongers did not own their stock?
(a) Seventy-five percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Thirty percent.
(d) Ninety percent.

2. At about what age did many costermonger children begin to sell?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Eight.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Six.

3. What type of modern store did costermongers fill in 1800s London?
(a) Convenience stores.
(b) Clothing stores.
(c) Department stores.
(d) Grocery stores.

4. How did the renters of low lodging houses eat?
(a) They brought their own food.
(b) They pooled food with other renters.
(c) They ate before they came in for the night.
(d) Food was included in the rent.

5. What did some of the bolder boys do?
(a) Ran errands to nobles who often would have them arrested.
(b) Collected the leavings out of the empty grain bins.
(c) Took the leavings out of the empty coal barges.
(d) Protected some of the more timid vendors.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mike manage to live?

2. What was the average wage of someone in the job in number 69?

3. What did most costermongers do with their children?

4. Where did the street people of London in the 1800s conduct their trade?

5. To what was street vending an alternative?

(see the answer key)

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