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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. Who is one casual warder profiled?
(a) An Indian man.
(b) A young boy.
(c) A mixed race teenaged girl.
(d) A black woman whose parents had been slaves in America.

2. Who collected coal, small scraps of wood, lost coins and other junk from the deep, sucking, stinking mud?
(a) Mudlarks.
(b) Mudworms.
(c) No one; it was not worth collecting.
(d) Mudmen.

3. Why did the clown stay a clown if he did not like doing so?
(a) He was involuntarily apprenticed to a clown and he could not break the contract.
(b) His father wanted him to do it.
(c) It was better pay.
(d) He couldn't get other work.

4. What did cab drivers sometimes do that was illegal?
(a) Started the meter on the way to pick someone up.
(b) Charged more than allowed by regulation.
(c) Employed unlicensed cab drivers for a portion of the day.
(d) Started the meter halfway through the trip and pocket the difference.

5. How did Mike manage to live?
(a) By pilfering from the marketplace.
(b) By joining a crossing sweep gang.
(c) By selling bits and pieces he'd find on the street.
(d) His master with whom he apprenticed gave him room and board.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did costermongers hope to do by dark everyday?`

2. What is an example of a mutual aid society?

3. How did most street folk learn their trade?

4. On what day of the week were regular customers allowed to stay free in some lodging houses?

5. What did the casual ward provide?

(see the answer key)

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