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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 was the name of the vaudeville show costers enjoyed?
(a) The Bawdy Ball.
(b) The Punch and Judy show.
(c) The Street Theater.
(d) The Penny Gaff.

2. Who most often hosted lodging houses?
(a) Men.
(b) There was no host.
(c) Women.
(d) Soldiers.

3. What group did the magician join to get away from home?
(a) The Greenwich Fair.
(b) The Londondarry Circus.
(c) The P.T. Barnum European Circus.
(d) The Circ Ole.

4. How did wholesale suppliers cheat costers?
(a) Holding the stock until it was sold and selling to two different costers.
(b) Selling rotten produce or shortchanging them.
(c) Adding hidden interest rates.
(d) Making the terms of sell difficult to understand.

5. What happened if a coster child didn't have the money to pay for lodging?
(a) They sold themselves to another renter.
(b) They hid under the bed.
(c) They ran up a bill.
(d) They were sent out to steal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mayhew say the Jewish traders seldom were?

2. How much did the fire eater earn?

3. What does Mayhew seem to believe about certain occupations?

4. How did servants sometimes augment their pay without owner's permission?

5. Whose son was the fire eater?

(see the answer key)

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