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

2. Where did the dust men take the debris?
(a) They dumped it in huge piles.
(b) They took it to a huge dump outside the city.
(c) They piled it up in vacant buildings.
(d) They dumped it in the Thames.

3. What type of freedom did costers enjoy that other workers did not?
(a) Being their own boss and not being stuck indoors.
(b) Being able to work when they wanted to work.
(c) Not having to pay taxes.
(d) Being able to put money away for retirement.

4. What happened to many coster children if their parents thought they did not bring enough money home at night?
(a) They were thrown out.
(b) They were sold into slavery.
(c) They were killed.
(d) They were beaten.

5. What type of gambling was most popular with costers?
(a) Betting on the horse races.
(b) Playing chess for money.
(c) Betting on dog fights.
(d) Playing cards or pitching pennies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ragmen do?

2. What did many children do about food in the worse lodging houses?

3. Into what kind of fund did residents of better lodging houses pay?

4. Why did some of these low-end workers go into the business?

5. What is one thing positive Mayhew says about crossing sweeps?

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