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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. How were vendors categorized by Mayhew?
(a) By their place of business.
(b) By how much money they made.
(c) Type of merchandise sold.
(d) By the class in which they were born.

2. What motivated the clown to continue working?
(a) He will be arrested for breaking a contract.
(b) He likes the work if it wasn't for the lack of prestige.
(c) His fear of failure.
(d) His wife and children.

3. What did the photographic man do before this job?
(a) Bar keeper.
(b) Banjo player.
(c) Singer.
(d) Bouncer.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group in London dominated wholesale trading?

2. What did some of the boys do to earn tips while serving as crossing sweeps?

3. How did many musician patterers support themselves?

4. What happened to many coster children if their parents thought they did not bring enough money home at night?

5. When did the magician's father die?

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