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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. What group does Mayhew include among street folk that seems out of place?
(a) Bakers.
(b) Drivers of horse-drawn omnibuses.
(c) Dentists.
(d) Physicians.

2. What did cab drivers sometimes do that was illegal?
(a) Started the meter on the way to pick someone up.
(b) Started the meter halfway through the trip and pocket the difference.
(c) Employed unlicensed cab drivers for a portion of the day.
(d) Charged more than allowed by regulation.

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

4. What did dustmen do?
(a) Kept the noble's carriages clean.
(b) Hauled off the coal dust and ashes.
(c) Dusted the store fronts.
(d) Cleaned out chimneys.

5. On what day of the week were regular customers allowed to stay free in some lodging houses?
(a) Friday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Saturday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were buskers?

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

3. What did Hemyng say about the French woman?

4. What did Mayhew say was the reason people from wealthier families became patterers?

5. What were the low end lodging houses like?

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