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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 did Mayhew say was the reason people from wealthier families became patterers?
(a) Rebellion.
(b) Believing it was the way God called people to live.
(c) Being kicked out of their home.
(d) Wanderlust.

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

3. What did the most intelligent and well-to-do costers sell?
(a) Hats and scarfs.
(b) Food and drink.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Sewing goods.

4. How did most street folk learn their trade?
(a) At special art schools.
(b) From their parents.
(c) As apprentices.
(d) Mostly self taught.

5. Who is one casual warder profiled?
(a) A mixed race teenaged girl.
(b) An Indian man.
(c) A young boy.
(d) A black woman whose parents had been slaves in America.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were vendors categorized by Mayhew?

2. Why did the puppeteer leave his former job to become a puppeteer?

3. Why did the puppeteer sometimes change the content of the Punch and Judy play?

4. How did many musician patterers support themselves?

5. Where did a coster sleep if sales were bad?

(see the answer key)

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