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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 Ragmen do?
(a) Washed carriages with rags.
(b) Washed windows with rags.
(c) Play various instruments on street corners.
(d) Wandered the streets buying used clothing.

2. What did few adult Jews seldom work as?
(a) Bankers.
(b) Costermongers.
(c) Butchers.
(d) Tailors.

3. What did the fire eater have to do once to win five shillings on a bet?
(a) Jump into the Thames River while on fire.
(b) Kill 20 rats in a cage with his teeth.
(c) Walk on a tightrope forty feet off the ground while eating fire.
(d) Kill a cobra with his teeth.

4. What does Mayhew say about the education of street folk?
(a) He doesn't mention their education.
(b) They were the least eductated of all the common people discussed.
(c) They usually only have one or two years of schooling and if they can read, it is not too well.
(d) They are better educated than street vendors, and the majority could read.

5. What did patterers deliver to their potential customers?
(a) Sermons on the sinfulness of life.
(b) Long, creative sales pitches.
(c) Monologues on how to do things.
(d) Short, pithy sales pitches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group does Mayhew include among street folk that seems out of place?

2. Who in Mike's family eventually emigrated to America?

3. How are Irish families described by Mayhew?

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

5. What did the casual ward provide?

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