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

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

3. How were vendors categorized by Mayhew?
(a) By the class in which they were born.
(b) By how much money they made.
(c) Type of merchandise sold.
(d) By their place of business.

4. What did patterers deliver to their potential customers?
(a) Monologues on how to do things.
(b) Sermons on the sinfulness of life.
(c) Short, pithy sales pitches.
(d) Long, creative sales pitches.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what kind of fund did residents of better lodging houses pay?

2. What was another name for a patterer?

3. How did wholesale suppliers cheat costers?

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

5. What percentage of people earning their living on the streets were vendors?

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