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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 crossing sweeps do?
(a) Swept the street in front of a gentleman or lady as they were crossing it.
(b) Swept the lantern cross pieces.
(c) Kept their assigned intersection clean.
(d) Went through the city cleaning all the public and church crosses.

2. What did some of the bolder boys do?
(a) Collected the leavings out of the empty grain bins.
(b) Took the leavings out of the empty coal barges.
(c) Ran errands to nobles who often would have them arrested.
(d) Protected some of the more timid vendors.

3. Where did a coster sleep if sales were bad?
(a) In the homeless shelter.
(b) In the doorway of a shop or church.
(c) In the debtor's prison.
(d) In the city parks.

4. What were the two usual reasons customers bought from patterers?
(a) The patterers were almost always pretty, young women.
(b) To make fun of the patterers.
(c) For the entertainment and because they believed the spiel.
(d) They felt God wanted them to buy.

5. What did the two orphan girls whose story Mayhew told sell?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Candy.
(d) Themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did many musician patterers support themselves?

2. Why did some costermonger parents require their children to work?

3. How were dustmen hired?

4. What kind of selling required the most capital and equipment?

5. What was the average wage of someone in the job in number 69?

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