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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 many children do about food in the worse lodging houses?
(a) Did not eat.
(b) Went through the garbage piles.
(c) Beg from other renters.
(d) Steal meat, bacon or potatoes.

2. Who did not usually bother to wash up even before eating or sleeping?
(a) Chimney sweeps.
(b) Everyone.
(c) Mudlarks.
(d) Ragmen.

3. What did most costermongers do with their children?
(a) Farmed them out.
(b) Sent them to orphanages.
(c) Did their best to support them.
(d) Left the babies to the elements so they didn't have to keep them.

4. From what ailment did Mayhew say all skilled laborers suffered?
(a) Rickets.
(b) Black lung disease.
(c) Chronic depression.
(d) Arthritis.

5. What did dustmen do?
(a) Dusted the store fronts.
(b) Cleaned out chimneys.
(c) Kept the noble's carriages clean.
(d) Hauled off the coal dust and ashes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who often became chimney sweepers?

2. How did servants sometimes augment their pay without owner's permission?

3. How did many musician patterers support themselves?

4. What did one of the young thieves who belonged to a gang tell Mayhew?

5. To whom did some merchants loan stock at no cost?

(see the answer key)

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