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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. How were dustmen hired?
(a) They just worked and then asked for a wage.
(b) By the mayor.
(c) By the city council.
(d) By individual store owners.

2. What percentage of costermongers did not own their stock?
(a) Fifty percent.
(b) Seventy-five percent.
(c) Ninety percent.
(d) Thirty percent.

3. What was the average wage of someone in the job in number 69?
(a) 10 shillings per day.
(b) 1.5 shillings per day.
(c) .5 shillings per day.
(d) 22 shillings per day.

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

5. What did the city of London use several tons of per year?
(a) Corn.
(b) Flour.
(c) Coal.
(d) Tobacco.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were chimney sweeper apprentices often starved?

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

3. What did crossing sweeps do?

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

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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