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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) A place to stay for a maximum of six months.
(b) Food and shelter for 24 hours only.
(c) Guidance.
(d) Job search assistance.

2. Who collected coal, small scraps of wood, lost coins and other junk from the deep, sucking, stinking mud?
(a) Mudlarks.
(b) Mudworms.
(c) No one; it was not worth collecting.
(d) Mudmen.

3. What did 307 poor people do for the first time?
(a) Talked to a Priest.
(b) Learned to read.
(c) Attended church.
(d) Found a job.

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

5. Where did the street people of London in the 1800s conduct their trade?
(a) In booths in the market.
(b) On the streets and sidewalks.
(c) Only in the city park.
(d) In their stores.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many were employed as domestic servants?

2. What must someone who is physically or mentally unable to work do?

3. Altogether, what is the approximate number of women and children?

4. Who is the author of the section on Suppression of Vice and Crime?

5. On the average, how many tracts did each person accept when they were being handed out?

(see the answer key)

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