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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 4: Those That Will Not Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did she pay for her desires?
(a) Prostitution.
(b) Working hard and not turning to the streets.
(c) Sending her younger sister to the steets.
(d) Running a brothel on the side.

2. What does Mayhew say is difficult or impossible?
(a) To write a book that is fair to those who are morally defective.
(b) To write a book that fails to cover the morally deficient.
(c) To catalogue all the various ways to earn a living.
(d) To catalogue all the various ways to turn criminal.

3. What type of toiletry items were provided by some of the better lodging houses?
(a) Soap and razors.
(b) Laundry soap and wash boards.
(c) Baht powder and shaving cream.
(d) Towels and soap.

4. What were fences in the section by John Binny?
(a) The way the rich did not have to think about the poor.
(b) How the government separated the criminal sections of town from other areas.
(c) Receivers of stolen goods.
(d) A way to keep your business from your neighbor's eyes.

5. What kind of low lodging house segregated the renters by sex?
(a) Only the one run by the government.
(b) The best of the lodging houses.
(c) The ones that were also brothels.
(d) All of the lodging houses did this.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened to the young girl lured from home?

3. What does the author say happens to a young girl lured away from home?

4. What type of freedom did costers enjoy that other workers did not?

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

(see the answer key)

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