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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 patterers deliver to their potential customers?
(a) Sermons on the sinfulness of life.
(b) Long, creative sales pitches.
(c) Short, pithy sales pitches.
(d) Monologues on how to do things.

2. What did Mayhew say was the reason people from wealthier families became patterers?
(a) Believing it was the way God called people to live.
(b) Being kicked out of their home.
(c) Wanderlust.
(d) Rebellion.

3. What did a publisher who Mayhew knew do for the boy who talked to Mayhew?
(a) Give him odd jobs occasionally.
(b) Helped him get an apprenticeship.
(c) Adopted him.
(d) Sent him to America.

4. What occasionally happened to one of the bolder boys?
(a) They would be arrested for grain theft and put in jail for a week.
(b) They would be arrested for coal theft and put in jail for a week.
(c) They would get smothered when a load of grain was dumped in the bin.
(d) They would get smashed when a load of coal was dumped in the barge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in Mike's family eventually emigrated to America?

2. What does Mayhew seem to believe about certain occupations?

3. What was a huckster who sold hardware at a fair called?

4. What was another name for a patterer?

5. Who was Mike?

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