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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 type of freedom did costers enjoy that other workers did not?
(a) Being their own boss and not being stuck indoors.
(b) Not having to pay taxes.
(c) Being able to put money away for retirement.
(d) Being able to work when they wanted to work.

2. How did many musician patterers support themselves?
(a) Selling personalized songs.
(b) Selling sheet music.
(c) Singing for noble houses.
(d) Making musical instruments.

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

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

5. Who most often hosted lodging houses?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) There was no host.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mayhew say was the reason people from wealthier families became patterers?

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

3. What did Mayhew say all blind musicians had in common?

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

5. What was another name for a patterer?

(see the answer key)

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