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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. How long had the crossing week Mayhew interviewed work as a crossing sweep at the time of the interview?
(a) More than a decade.
(b) A few months.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 20 years.

2. What did the children who were put in jail think of the experience?
(a) They usually were beat at home when they got out of jail.
(b) They were proud of themselves.
(c) They were ashamed.
(d) They saw it as a vacation.

3. Who were most of the street folk Mayhew discussed?
(a) Entertainers.
(b) The Homeless.
(c) Prostitutes.
(d) The Insane.

4. What does Mayhew say about the education of street folk?
(a) They are better educated than street vendors, and the majority could read.
(b) They usually only have one or two years of schooling and if they can read, it is not too well.
(c) He doesn't mention their education.
(d) They were the least eductated of all the common people discussed.

5. What did Mayhew say was the reason people from wealthier families became patterers?
(a) Wanderlust.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Being kicked out of their home.
(d) Believing it was the way God called people to live.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the forerunners to doormen?

2. To whom did some merchants loan stock at no cost?

3. Who collected coal, small scraps of wood, lost coins and other junk from the deep, sucking, stinking mud?

4. What did dustmen do?

5. What motivated the clown to continue working?

(see the answer key)

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