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

2. What type of modern store did costermongers fill in 1800s London?
(a) Convenience stores.
(b) Department stores.
(c) Grocery stores.
(d) Clothing stores.

3. What happened if a coster child didn't have the money to pay for lodging?
(a) They hid under the bed.
(b) They ran up a bill.
(c) They were sent out to steal.
(d) They sold themselves to another renter.

4. What were the low end lodging houses like?
(a) They were just adequate, a little heat and a roof.
(b) They were usually clean with decent food.
(c) In terrible condition with no heat and leaky roofs.
(d) They were typical dwellings for lower middle class.

5. On what did coster children often waste their money?
(a) Betting.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Sweets.
(d) Beer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did patterers deliver to their potential customers?

3. Where did the street people of London in the 1800s conduct their trade?

4. How did the renters of low lodging houses eat?

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

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