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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. What did Mayhew call the fact that many would rather starve than accept charity?
(a) Ignorant.
(b) Stupid.
(c) Admirable.
(d) Stubborn.

2. Why did some of these low-end workers go into the business?
(a) No reason is mentioned.
(b) Because they make pretty good pay.
(c) Because their family was in it before them.
(d) Because they like being outside.

3. What percentage of people earning their living on the streets were vendors?
(a) Fifty percent.
(b) Sixty percent.
(c) Eighty-five percent.
(d) Seventy-five percent.

4. What is another word that Mayhew called puppeteers?
(a) Stringers.
(b) Punch.
(c) Pups.
(d) Geppettos.

5. Who usually watched Jewish girls who peddled fruit?
(a) No one.
(b) Their boyfriends.
(c) Their brothers.
(d) Their mothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did few adult Jews seldom work as?

2. What happened if a coster child didn't have the money to pay for lodging?

3. What did most costermongers do with their children?

4. Where did the dust men take the debris?

5. Who in Mike's family eventually emigrated to America?

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