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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 Mayhew call the fact that many would rather starve than accept charity?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Stubborn.
(c) Ignorant.
(d) Admirable.

2. How did coster runaway children usually support themselves?
(a) Joining the military.
(b) Living with another adult.
(c) Selling items on the street.
(d) Entering orphanages.

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

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

5. What did a lodging manager do when a child brought in a stolen item for rent?
(a) Let the child stay for the night in exchange for the item.
(b) Called the constable.
(c) Gave the child half of what it was worth.
(d) Gave the child a small fraction of its value and pawned it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the forerunners to doormen?

2. What did costermongers hope to do by dark everyday?`

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

4. What puppeteer did Mayhew interview?

5. What did some of the bolder boys do?

(see the answer key)

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