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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 were the low end lodging houses like?
(a) In terrible condition with no heat and leaky roofs.
(b) They were typical dwellings for lower middle class.
(c) They were usually clean with decent food.
(d) They were just adequate, a little heat and a roof.

2. What group does Mayhew include among street folk that seems out of place?
(a) Physicians.
(b) Bakers.
(c) Drivers of horse-drawn omnibuses.
(d) Dentists.

3. What were the two usual reasons customers bought from patterers?
(a) They felt God wanted them to buy.
(b) The patterers were almost always pretty, young women.
(c) To make fun of the patterers.
(d) For the entertainment and because they believed the spiel.

4. For whom did the street clown work for before becoming a clown?
(a) A gang of crossing sweeps.
(b) His father's employer.
(c) The constable as a watchboy.
(d) The dockmaster.

5. How did many musician patterers support themselves?
(a) Selling personalized songs.
(b) Singing for noble houses.
(c) Selling sheet music.
(d) Making musical instruments.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did he and his wife have to save to buy the camera?

2. What motivated the clown to continue working?

3. Where did the dust men take the debris?

4. Who does Mayhew say are well paid compared to others profiled in the book?

5. What kind of education did most costermongers have?

(see the answer key)

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