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

2. What type of gambling was most popular with costers?
(a) Betting on the horse races.
(b) Playing chess for money.
(c) Playing cards or pitching pennies.
(d) Betting on dog fights.

3. What seemed to be part of the motivation for a street person to perform?
(a) A desire to move into the noble class by earning enough money.
(b) To be able to steal from the audience as they were caught up in a performance.
(c) Attention from an admiring audience.
(d) Getting away from lives as things such as chimney sweeps, which is what most of their families were.

4. What did some of the bolder boys do?
(a) Protected some of the more timid vendors.
(b) Collected the leavings out of the empty grain bins.
(c) Took the leavings out of the empty coal barges.
(d) Ran errands to nobles who often would have them arrested.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did shovelers do?

2. How did many musician patterers support themselves?

3. How were vendors categorized by Mayhew?

4. When did the magician's father die?

5. What is another word that Mayhew called puppeteers?

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