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

2. How did the police sometimes help crossing sweeps?
(a) By finding them odd jobs.
(b) They looked down upon the crossing sweeps and would not help them.
(c) By recommending them for better jobs.
(d) By protecting their territory for them.

3. What would very occasionally happen to a dependable crossing sweep?
(a) He would be beat up by less scrupulous workers.
(b) He would be given such good tips he could retire.
(c) He would be given a job as footman or porter in a household.
(d) He would be hired by the city council to supervise other crossing sweeps.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the clown hide from his neighbors?

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

3. How did many musician patterers support themselves?

4. What could the interest rate on stock reach?

5. What were the low end lodging houses like?

(see the answer key)

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