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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. Who worked for very low wages in the hopes of finding something to sell?
(a) Cleaners.
(b) Sorters.
(c) Beaters.
(d) Sifters.

2. Who were the forerunners to doormen?
(a) Costermongers.
(b) Crossing sweeps hired to open the door to an establishment.
(c) No job mentioned in this book.
(d) Mudlarks.

3. Where did a coster sleep if sales were bad?
(a) In the homeless shelter.
(b) In the doorway of a shop or church.
(c) In the debtor's prison.
(d) In the city parks.

4. 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.

5. Who most often hosted lodging houses?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Women.
(c) There was no host.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group in London dominated wholesale trading?

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

3. What percentage of costermongers did not own their stock?

4. What did the most intelligent and well-to-do costers sell?

5. What did many children do about food in the worse lodging houses?

(see the answer key)

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