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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 the two orphan girls whose story Mayhew told sell?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Candy.

2. How did wholesale suppliers cheat costers?
(a) Selling rotten produce or shortchanging them.
(b) Holding the stock until it was sold and selling to two different costers.
(c) Making the terms of sell difficult to understand.
(d) Adding hidden interest rates.

3. Why did some costermonger parents require their children to work?
(a) To make the parents' life easier.
(b) To keep them out of the army.
(c) To build their character.
(d) To contribute to family income.

4. What happened to many coster children if their parents thought they did not bring enough money home at night?
(a) They were sold into slavery.
(b) They were thrown out.
(c) They were beaten.
(d) They were killed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did some merchants loan stock at no cost?

2. To what was street vending an alternative?

3. What kind of low lodging house segregated the renters by sex?

4. What type of modern store did costermongers fill in 1800s London?

5. Who most often hosted lodging houses?

(see the answer key)

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