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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 dustmen do?
(a) Kept the noble's carriages clean.
(b) Dusted the store fronts.
(c) Hauled off the coal dust and ashes.
(d) Cleaned out chimneys.

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

3. To whom did some merchants loan stock at no cost?
(a) Female costers who sold newspapers.
(b) Male costers with families.
(c) Male costers who sold food.
(d) Female costers selling nearby.

4. What kind of low lodging house segregated the renters by sex?
(a) Only the one run by the government.
(b) The ones that were also brothels.
(c) All of the lodging houses did this.
(d) The best of the lodging houses.

5. How did the police sometimes help crossing sweeps?
(a) By recommending them for better jobs.
(b) By finding them odd jobs.
(c) They looked down upon the crossing sweeps and would not help them.
(d) By protecting their territory for them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did the dust men take the debris?

3. Why did some of these low-end workers go into the business?

4. With whom does Mike live with after he is an orphan?

5. What would very occasionally happen to a dependable crossing sweep?

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