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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. How did Mayhew term the young men between 12 and 20 years old who had no job and loitered in the streets?
(a) Unlucky stiffs.
(b) Rats.
(c) Budding criminals.
(d) Lazy varmits.

3. What did the two orphan girls whose story Mayhew told sell?
(a) Candy.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Flowers.

4. Where does the puppeteer perform his Punch and Judy show?
(a) On the particular street corner that he rents and pays taxes to the city.
(b) In an auditorium or theater.
(c) Mostly along the boardwalk that runs along the Thames River.
(d) In the streets, at private parties, and at birthday parties for the children of noblemen.

5. What does Mayhew say the Jewish traders seldom were?
(a) Kind.
(b) Drinkers or gamblers.
(c) Penurious.
(d) Generous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did a lodging manager do when a child brought in a stolen item for rent?

2. What did the crossing sweep who Mayhew interviewed work at before finding an open intersection?

3. Who looked down upon chimney sweepers?

4. What was a job of last resort?

5. What did patterers deliver to their potential customers?

(see the answer key)

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