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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 some of the boys do to earn tips while serving as crossing sweeps?
(a) Run alongside buses and entertain the passengers.
(b) Saddle horses.
(c) Hang out wash.
(d) Help a chimney sweep take his equipment up on the roof.

2. What was a huckster who sold hardware at a fair called?
(a) A Cheap Con.
(b) A Cheap Jack.
(c) A Penny Call.
(d) A Hustler.

3. Why did some young costers commit petty crimes?
(a) They were angry at the government.
(b) For a place to sleep and food to eat.
(c) For the thrill of it.
(d) To make a name for themselves.

4. How did the renters of low lodging houses eat?
(a) Food was included in the rent.
(b) They ate before they came in for the night.
(c) They pooled food with other renters.
(d) They brought their own food.

5. Who collected coal, small scraps of wood, lost coins and other junk from the deep, sucking, stinking mud?
(a) No one; it was not worth collecting.
(b) Mudlarks.
(c) Mudworms.
(d) Mudmen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a job of last resort?

2. Which group in London dominated wholesale trading?

3. What was the name of the vaudeville show costers enjoyed?

4. What were costermongers called who carried their wares on their backs?

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

(see the answer key)

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