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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 4: Those That Will Not Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many prostitutes did the police estimate work in London?
(a) 18-25,000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 2-3000.
(d) 7-8000.

2. What did Hemyng call a soldier who was supported by a wealthy woman?
(a) A gigolo.
(b) A pariah.
(c) A male prostitute.
(d) A fool.

3. What did one Jewish trader claim to have purchased?
(a) An old cloak belonging to the Queen.
(b) An old cloak belonging to the King.
(c) A bishop's miter.
(d) A knight's sword.

4. What were buskers?
(a) Street performers.
(b) People who hawk wares.
(c) People who are insane but harmless.
(d) People who are only temporarily homeless and perfectly sane.

5. What were the two usual reasons customers bought from patterers?
(a) To make fun of the patterers.
(b) The patterers were almost always pretty, young women.
(c) They felt God wanted them to buy.
(d) For the entertainment and because they believed the spiel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say happens to a young girl lured away from home?

2. Into what kind of fund did residents of better lodging houses pay?

3. What did few adult Jews seldom work as?

4. To what does Nemyng attribute the spread of vice in Europe?

5. Where did the dust men take the debris?

(see the answer key)

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