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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 1: Of the London Street-folk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the two orphan girls whose story Mayhew told sell?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Candy.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Newspapers.

2. What type of freedom did costers enjoy that other workers did not?
(a) Being their own boss and not being stuck indoors.
(b) Being able to put money away for retirement.
(c) Not having to pay taxes.
(d) Being able to work when they wanted to work.

3. Where did costermongers usually live?
(a) In the city parks.
(b) Above their stores.
(c) In alms houses.
(d) In a rented room.

4. Where did the street people of London in the 1800s conduct their trade?
(a) In booths in the market.
(b) On the streets and sidewalks.
(c) Only in the city park.
(d) In their stores.

5. What could the interest rate on stock reach?
(a) Two hundred percent per year.
(b) 1040 percent per year.
(c) Twenty percent per day.
(d) Forty percent per week.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the most common tasks for which costers used math?

2. Into what kind of fund did residents of better lodging houses pay?

3. What did Mayhew think of the reason for wealthier people to become patterers?

4. Who most often hosted lodging houses?

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

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