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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. Which group in London dominated wholesale trading?
(a) Jewish.
(b) Irish.
(c) French.
(d) Italian.

2. What did most costermongers do with their children?
(a) Left the babies to the elements so they didn't have to keep them.
(b) Sent them to orphanages.
(c) Farmed them out.
(d) Did their best to support them.

3. What did few adult Jews seldom work as?
(a) Tailors.
(b) Butchers.
(c) Bankers.
(d) Costermongers.

4. What is a "Patent American Air Preserver"?
(a) An instrument that measures the amount of pollution in the air.
(b) A Patent that the photographer applied for in the patent office.
(c) A way of keeping insects off your person.
(d) A bogus product the photographer sold.

5. With whom does Mike live with after he is an orphan?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His teenage sister.
(c) No where.
(d) His grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the puppeteer sometimes change the content of the Punch and Judy play?

2. What was the average wage of someone in the job in number 69?

3. What kind of low lodging house segregated the renters by sex?

4. Who were the forerunners to doormen?

5. What occasionally happened to one of the bolder boys?

(see the answer key)

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