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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. When did the one homeless shelter open?
(a) During the summer months only.
(b) When temperatures dropped below freezing.
(c) From 7 to 8 pm nightly during the winter.
(d) Every night of the year.

2. What was the most common tasks for which costers used math?
(a) Most costers did not know how to do math.
(b) Figuring their profits.
(c) Figuring the weights and measurements of their instruments.
(d) Betting on the horse races.

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

4. What happened to the young girl lured from home?
(a) She was never heard from again.
(b) She managed to escape and seeks refuge in a church.
(c) She quickly died of veneral disease.
(d) She encountered Hemyng who rescues her.

5. What was another name for a patterer?
(a) Riggers.
(b) Montebank.
(c) Con artist.
(d) Speakeasy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "Patent American Air Preserver"?

2. What does the author say beggars often spent considerable amounts of money buying?

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

4. What kind of selling required the most capital and equipment?

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

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