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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2: Of the Street-Jews.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the crossing sweep who Mayhew interviewed work at before finding an open intersection?
(a) Shining lanterns.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Selling newspapers.
(d) Selling matches.

2. What did some of the boys do to earn tips while serving as crossing sweeps?
(a) Run alongside buses and entertain the passengers.
(b) Hang out wash.
(c) Saddle horses.
(d) Help a chimney sweep take his equipment up on the roof.

3. What was the most common tasks for which costers used math?
(a) Figuring their profits.
(b) Most costers did not know how to do math.
(c) Figuring the weights and measurements of their instruments.
(d) Betting on the horse races.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a job of last resort?

2. Who often became chimney sweepers?

3. What did few adult Jews seldom work as?

4. What did most costermongers do with their children?

5. Who collected coal, small scraps of wood, lost coins and other junk from the deep, sucking, stinking mud?

(see the answer key)

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