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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 did costermongers hope to do by dark everyday?`
(a) Steal and fence enough goods for whiskey.
(b) Sell enough merchandise to feed their family every night.
(c) They had no daily goals.
(d) Win big at gambling.

2. What did crossing sweeps do?
(a) Kept their assigned intersection clean.
(b) Went through the city cleaning all the public and church crosses.
(c) Swept the lantern cross pieces.
(d) Swept the street in front of a gentleman or lady as they were crossing it.

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

4. What did Ragmen do?
(a) Washed carriages with rags.
(b) Washed windows with rags.
(c) Play various instruments on street corners.
(d) Wandered the streets buying used clothing.

5. What were the low end lodging houses like?
(a) They were typical dwellings for lower middle class.
(b) In terrible condition with no heat and leaky roofs.
(c) They were usually clean with decent food.
(d) They were just adequate, a little heat and a roof.

Short Answer Questions

1. At about what age did many costermonger children begin to sell?

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

3. Where did the dust men take the debris?

4. Why did Mayhew say many costermongers lived in sin?

5. To what was street vending an alternative?

(see the answer key)

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