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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) Rebellion.
(b) Wanderlust.
(c) Believing it was the way God called people to live.
(d) Being kicked out of their home.

2. How did the renters of low lodging houses eat?
(a) They brought their own food.
(b) They pooled food with other renters.
(c) Food was included in the rent.
(d) They ate before they came in for the night.

3. To whom did some merchants loan stock at no cost?
(a) Female costers selling nearby.
(b) Male costers who sold food.
(c) Female costers who sold newspapers.
(d) Male costers with families.

4. What could the interest rate on stock reach?
(a) Twenty percent per day.
(b) Forty percent per week.
(c) 1040 percent per year.
(d) Two hundred percent per year.

5. Why did some young costers commit petty crimes?
(a) To make a name for themselves.
(b) They were angry at the government.
(c) For a place to sleep and food to eat.
(d) For the thrill of it.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what did coster children often waste their money?

2. How did wholesale suppliers cheat costers?

3. What were the low end lodging houses like?

4. What was the most common tasks for which costers used math?

5. At about what age did many costermonger children begin to sell?

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