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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 does Mayhew describe the Punch and Judy show?
(a) As a serious morals tale.
(b) As a farcical tragedy.
(c) As a sentimental, comic, tragic two-act play.
(d) He does not give it a description.

2. What were most common in Whitechapel, Shadwell, Spitalfields?
(a) Good Christian men and women working against prostitution and pornography.
(b) Efficient police keeping prostitution at bay.
(c) Brothels.
(d) Large tent meetings.

3. What does Mayhew say humans must do?
(a) Be good stewards of the animal kingdom.
(b) Work for a living.
(c) Be good stewards of the plant kingdom.
(d) Help one another.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mayhew term the young men between 12 and 20 years old who had no job and loitered in the streets?

2. Why did Mayhew say many costermongers lived in sin?

3. What did the clown hide from his neighbors?

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

5. What did one Jewish trader claim to have purchased?

(see the answer key)

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