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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 is another word that Mayhew called puppeteers?
(a) Punch.
(b) Pups.
(c) Stringers.
(d) Geppettos.

2. To whom did some merchants loan stock at no cost?
(a) Male costers who sold food.
(b) Female costers selling nearby.
(c) Female costers who sold newspapers.
(d) Male costers with families.

3. Where did costermongers usually live?
(a) Above their stores.
(b) In alms houses.
(c) In the city parks.
(d) In a rented room.

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

5. How did Mike manage to live?
(a) By selling bits and pieces he'd find on the street.
(b) By joining a crossing sweep gang.
(c) His master with whom he apprenticed gave him room and board.
(d) By pilfering from the marketplace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of people earning their living on the streets were vendors?

2. Who usually watched Jewish girls who peddled fruit?

3. What would very occasionally happen to a dependable crossing sweep?

4. How were street folk different from patterers?

5. How long did he and his wife have to save to buy the camera?

(see the answer key)

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