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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 3: Our Street Folk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What seemed to be part of the motivation for a street person to perform?
(a) To be able to steal from the audience as they were caught up in a performance.
(b) A desire to move into the noble class by earning enough money.
(c) Attention from an admiring audience.
(d) Getting away from lives as things such as chimney sweeps, which is what most of their families were.

2. What were the low end lodging houses like?
(a) They were typical dwellings for lower middle class.
(b) They were just adequate, a little heat and a roof.
(c) In terrible condition with no heat and leaky roofs.
(d) They were usually clean with decent food.

3. How often did chimney sweeps bathe in times earlier than that of Mayhew?
(a) Twice a week.
(b) Seldom.
(c) Everyday.
(d) Never.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mayhew term the young men between 12 and 20 years old who had no job and loitered in the streets?

2. What motivated the clown to continue working?

3. How were vendors categorized by Mayhew?

4. Why did some of these low-end workers go into the business?

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

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