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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2: Of the Street-Jews.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did a publisher who Mayhew knew do for the boy who talked to Mayhew?
(a) Sent him to America.
(b) Give him odd jobs occasionally.
(c) Helped him get an apprenticeship.
(d) Adopted him.

2. Who did not usually bother to wash up even before eating or sleeping?
(a) Everyone.
(b) Ragmen.
(c) Chimney sweeps.
(d) Mudlarks.

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

4. What percentage of costermongers did not own their stock?
(a) Ninety percent.
(b) Seventy-five percent.
(c) Fifty percent.
(d) Thirty percent.

5. What did the most intelligent and well-to-do costers sell?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Sewing goods.
(c) Food and drink.
(d) Hats and scarfs.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day of the week were regular customers allowed to stay free in some lodging houses?

2. What did the mutual aid societies do?

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

4. What type of toiletry items were provided by some of the better lodging houses?

5. On what did coster children often waste their money?

(see the answer key)

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