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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 1: Of the London Street-folk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mayhew say was the reason people from wealthier families became patterers?
(a) Wanderlust.
(b) Believing it was the way God called people to live.
(c) Rebellion.
(d) Being kicked out of their home.

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

3. How did coster runaway children usually support themselves?
(a) Selling items on the street.
(b) Entering orphanages.
(c) Joining the military.
(d) Living with another adult.

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

5. What percentage of people earning their living on the streets were vendors?
(a) Fifty percent.
(b) Eighty-five percent.
(c) Sixty percent.
(d) Seventy-five percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the street people of London in the 1800s conduct their trade?

2. How did the renters of low lodging houses eat?

3. What percentage of costermongers did not own their stock?

4. What happened to many coster children if their parents thought they did not bring enough money home at night?

5. On what day of the week were regular customers allowed to stay free in some lodging houses?

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