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

2. What did costermongers hope to do by dark everyday?`
(a) Sell enough merchandise to feed their family every night.
(b) Win big at gambling.
(c) They had no daily goals.
(d) Steal and fence enough goods for whiskey.

3. What was the average wage of someone in the job in number 69?
(a) 10 shillings per day.
(b) 1.5 shillings per day.
(c) 22 shillings per day.
(d) .5 shillings per day.

4. With whom does Mike live with after he is an orphan?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) No where.
(d) His teenage sister.

5. What did shovelers do?
(a) Piled coal ash into heaps.
(b) Picked up horse manure from the streets.
(c) Cleared the streets of leaves.
(d) Cleared the streets of snow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the most intelligent and well-to-do costers sell?

2. What did one of the young thieves who belonged to a gang tell Mayhew?

3. Who often became chimney sweepers?

4. Who usually watched Jewish girls who peddled fruit?

5. How were dustmen hired?

(see the answer key)

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