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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 were the two usual reasons customers bought from patterers?
(a) They felt God wanted them to buy.
(b) To make fun of the patterers.
(c) For the entertainment and because they believed the spiel.
(d) The patterers were almost always pretty, young women.

2. Why did Mayhew say many costermongers lived in sin?
(a) They never attended church.
(b) They refused to acknowledge the crown.
(c) They stole merchandise.
(d) They were unmarried.

3. What type of toiletry items were provided by some of the better lodging houses?
(a) Soap and razors.
(b) Towels and soap.
(c) Baht powder and shaving cream.
(d) Laundry soap and wash boards.

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

5. What kind of low lodging house segregated the renters by sex?
(a) The ones that were also brothels.
(b) Only the one run by the government.
(c) All of the lodging houses did this.
(d) The best of the lodging houses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who most often hosted lodging houses?

2. Where did costermongers usually live?

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

4. What were the low end lodging houses like?

5. What type of modern store did costermongers fill in 1800s London?

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