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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 is a "Patent American Air Preserver"?
(a) An instrument that measures the amount of pollution in the air.
(b) A way of keeping insects off your person.
(c) A bogus product the photographer sold.
(d) A Patent that the photographer applied for in the patent office.

2. Who worked for very low wages in the hopes of finding something to sell?
(a) Sorters.
(b) Beaters.
(c) Sifters.
(d) Cleaners.

3. Where did a coster sleep if sales were bad?
(a) In the city parks.
(b) In the debtor's prison.
(c) In the doorway of a shop or church.
(d) In the homeless shelter.

4. Which group in London dominated wholesale trading?
(a) Italian.
(b) Jewish.
(c) French.
(d) Irish.

5. What did the fire eater have to do once to win five shillings on a bet?
(a) Jump into the Thames River while on fire.
(b) Kill 20 rats in a cage with his teeth.
(c) Walk on a tightrope forty feet off the ground while eating fire.
(d) Kill a cobra with his teeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were vendors categorized by Mayhew?

2. For how long had the clown worked in that capacity?

3. Who did not usually bother to wash up even before eating or sleeping?

4. What type of modern store did costermongers fill in 1800s London?

5. What did the children who were put in jail think of the experience?

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