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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 costermongers hope to do by dark everyday?`
(a) Steal and fence enough goods for whiskey.
(b) They had no daily goals.
(c) Win big at gambling.
(d) Sell enough merchandise to feed their family every night.

2. What did the most intelligent and well-to-do costers sell?
(a) Food and drink.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Hats and scarfs.
(d) Sewing goods.

3. What percentage of costermongers did not own their stock?
(a) Seventy-five percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Ninety percent.
(d) Thirty percent.

4. What were costermongers called who carried their wares on their backs?
(a) Packmen.
(b) Back sellers.
(c) Mobile vendors.
(d) Pack vendors.

5. What did most costermongers do with their children?
(a) Sent them to orphanages.
(b) Left the babies to the elements so they didn't have to keep them.
(c) Did their best to support them.
(d) Farmed them out.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were vendors categorized by Mayhew?

2. What type of gambling was most popular with costers?

3. What was another name for a patterer?

4. Where did a coster sleep if sales were bad?

5. What was a huckster who sold hardware at a fair called?

(see the answer key)

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