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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 crossing sweep who Mayhew interviewed work at before finding an open intersection?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Selling newspapers.
(c) Shining lanterns.
(d) Selling matches.

2. Why were chimney sweeper apprentices often starved?
(a) To keep them small.
(b) They were fed just like every other apprentice.
(c) To control them.
(d) To save money.

3. On what did coster children often waste their money?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Sweets.
(c) Beer.
(d) Betting.

4. What percentage of people earning their living on the streets were vendors?
(a) Eighty-five percent.
(b) Sixty percent.
(c) Fifty percent.
(d) Seventy-five percent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of low lodging house segregated the renters by sex?

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

3. What was the most common tasks for which costers used math?

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

5. What did Ragmen do?

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