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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. Where was the fire eater educated?
(a) In private schools.
(b) On the streets.
(c) In three years of the public schools.
(d) He has no education to speak of and cannot read or write.

2. What did the photographic man do before this job?
(a) Singer.
(b) Bouncer.
(c) Banjo player.
(d) Bar keeper.

3. What did a 19-year-old newspaper printer like?
(a) Expensive dresses and jewelry.
(b) To eat and drink extravagantly.
(c) To have more than she needed.
(d) Men.

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

5. What did the two orphan girls whose story Mayhew told sell?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Candy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the police sometimes help crossing sweeps?

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

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

4. What were fences in the section by John Binny?

5. What was the average wage of someone in the job in number 69?

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