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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 dustmen do?
(a) Kept the noble's carriages clean.
(b) Dusted the store fronts.
(c) Cleaned out chimneys.
(d) Hauled off the coal dust and ashes.

2. What did few adult Jews seldom work as?
(a) Tailors.
(b) Costermongers.
(c) Bankers.
(d) Butchers.

3. Who did not usually bother to wash up even before eating or sleeping?
(a) Chimney sweeps.
(b) Mudlarks.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Ragmen.

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

5. Who often became chimney sweepers?
(a) Many young men since it paid very well.
(b) The smallest member of a Costermonger family.
(c) The tallest member of a Costermonger family.
(d) Destitute orphans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Mayhew say was the reason people from wealthier families became patterers?

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

4. How did many musician patterers support themselves?

5. What is an example of a mutual aid society?

(see the answer key)

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