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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. How did many musician patterers support themselves?
(a) Selling personalized songs.
(b) Singing for noble houses.
(c) Selling sheet music.
(d) Making musical instruments.

2. What happened that people started bathing more often?
(a) Charity organizations opening more and offering free baths.
(b) A law forcing everyone to bath at least once a month.
(c) A law forcing everyone to bath at least once a week.
(d) The rise of public baths.

3. What did the city of London use several tons of per year?
(a) Flour.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Coal.
(d) Corn.

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

5. What did one of the young thieves who belonged to a gang tell Mayhew?
(a) Their parents usually beat them if they didn't bring something home everyday.
(b) That the older boys did most of the thieving.
(c) The rich don't care about them so why shouldn't they steal from them.
(d) He's rather earn an honest living if there were a job.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which group in London dominated wholesale trading?

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

4. What happened if a coster child didn't have the money to pay for lodging?

5. What had one crossing sweep worked at until he was injured at age 36?

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