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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 4: Those That Will Not Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Mayhew term the young men between 12 and 20 years old who had no job and loitered in the streets?
(a) Rats.
(b) Budding criminals.
(c) Lazy varmits.
(d) Unlucky stiffs.

2. How were vendors categorized by Mayhew?
(a) By the class in which they were born.
(b) Type of merchandise sold.
(c) By how much money they made.
(d) By their place of business.

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

4. On what day of the week were regular customers allowed to stay free in some lodging houses?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Sunday.

5. What did some of the boys do to earn tips while serving as crossing sweeps?
(a) Run alongside buses and entertain the passengers.
(b) Hang out wash.
(c) Saddle horses.
(d) Help a chimney sweep take his equipment up on the roof.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many visits per day did each missionary make on average?

2. Who did not usually bother to wash up even before eating or sleeping?

3. Who is the author of the section on Suppression of Vice and Crime?

4. For how long had the clown worked in that capacity?

5. What did some of the bolder boys do?

(see the answer key)

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