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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. How long did he and his wife have to save to buy the camera?
(a) A year or two.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Two months.

2. What kind of selling required the most capital and equipment?
(a) Food and beverage.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Medicines.

3. What were the street folk families like?
(a) Most of them do not even know who their parents are.
(b) They were often families that worked at the lowest echelons of society, such as chimney sweeps.
(c) They pretty much ran the gamut, but generally very poor.
(d) Often comfortable financially or even wealthy.

4. When did the magician's father die?
(a) When the magician was 2.
(b) When the magician was 10.
(c) He was still alive at the time of the interview.
(d) When the magician was 25.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What group does Mayhew include among street folk that seems out of place?

2. In what field did many performers get their start?

3. When did the one homeless shelter open?

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

5. Why did the clown stay a clown if he did not like doing so?

(see the answer key)

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