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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. What did the casual ward provide?
(a) Job search assistance.
(b) Guidance.
(c) Food and shelter for 24 hours only.
(d) A place to stay for a maximum of six months.

2. What motivated the clown to continue working?
(a) His fear of failure.
(b) He will be arrested for breaking a contract.
(c) His wife and children.
(d) He likes the work if it wasn't for the lack of prestige.

3. What was a job of last resort?
(a) Chimney sweeps.
(b) Begging.
(c) Crossing sweeps.
(d) Costermongers.

4. According to the author, how did the gypsy women make money?
(a) Tattooing.
(b) Taking in wash.
(c) Prostitution.
(d) Fortune telling.

5. What did Hemyng say about the French woman?
(a) She lost her husband and children when he learned of her work.
(b) She was raped and murdered by a client.
(c) She was scarred forever by the disease of syphillis.
(d) She sold herself to support her and her husband with his knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the most intelligent and well-to-do costers sell?

2. Who looked down upon chimney sweepers?

3. What is one thing positive Mayhew says about crossing sweeps?

4. What does Mayhew say humans must do?

5. What were most common in Whitechapel, Shadwell, Spitalfields?

(see the answer key)

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