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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 type of freedom did costers enjoy that other workers did not?
(a) Being able to put money away for retirement.
(b) Being their own boss and not being stuck indoors.
(c) Being able to work when they wanted to work.
(d) Not having to pay taxes.

2. Into what kind of fund did residents of better lodging houses pay?
(a) Entertainment funds.
(b) General maintenance funds.
(c) Newspaper funds.
(d) Medical care funds.

3. What were buskers?
(a) People who hawk wares.
(b) People who are only temporarily homeless and perfectly sane.
(c) People who are insane but harmless.
(d) Street performers.

4. How long did he and his wife have to save to buy the camera?
(a) A year or two.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two months.
(d) Ten years.

5. What did the magician earn at the time of Mayhew's interview with him?
(a) 1 pound a week.
(b) 25 shillings a month.
(c) 4 shillings a week.
(d) 4 pounds a week.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would the street clown prefer to do than being a clown?

2. Which group in London dominated wholesale trading?

3. Why did the clown stay a clown if he did not like doing so?

4. Where did the street people of London in the 1800s conduct their trade?

5. At about what age did many costermonger children begin to sell?

(see the answer key)

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