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

2. Why did Mayhew say many costermongers lived in sin?
(a) They were unmarried.
(b) They stole merchandise.
(c) They refused to acknowledge the crown.
(d) They never attended church.

3. 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.

4. What were costermongers called who carried their wares on their backs?
(a) Mobile vendors.
(b) Pack vendors.
(c) Back sellers.
(d) Packmen.

5. To what was street vending an alternative?
(a) Being sent to the military.
(b) Going to jail.
(c) Being hung.
(d) Going to the workhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the children who were put in jail think of the experience?

2. With whom does Mike live with after he is an orphan?

3. What did the city of London use several tons of per year?

4. How did the police sometimes help crossing sweeps?

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

(see the answer key)

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