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

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

3. To whom did some merchants loan stock at no cost?
(a) Male costers with families.
(b) Female costers who sold newspapers.
(c) Male costers who sold food.
(d) Female costers selling nearby.

4. With whom does Mike live with after he is an orphan?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) No where.
(d) His teenage sister.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did shovelers do?

2. From what ailment did Mayhew say all skilled laborers suffered?

3. What did the crossing sweep who Mayhew interviewed work at before finding an open intersection?

4. What was a job of last resort?

5. Where did costermongers usually live?

(see the answer key)

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