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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 often did chimney sweeps bathe in times earlier than that of Mayhew?
(a) Never.
(b) Twice a week.
(c) Everyday.
(d) Seldom.

2. What did dustmen do?
(a) Kept the noble's carriages clean.
(b) Dusted the store fronts.
(c) Hauled off the coal dust and ashes.
(d) Cleaned out chimneys.

3. What were the street folk families like?
(a) Often comfortable financially or even wealthy.
(b) Most of them do not even know who their parents are.
(c) They were often families that worked at the lowest echelons of society, such as chimney sweeps.
(d) They pretty much ran the gamut, but generally very poor.

4. Who did not usually bother to wash up even before eating or sleeping?
(a) Everyone.
(b) Chimney sweeps.
(c) Mudlarks.
(d) Ragmen.

5. What type of freedom did costers enjoy that other workers did not?
(a) Being able to work when they wanted to work.
(b) Not having to pay taxes.
(c) Being their own boss and not being stuck indoors.
(d) Being able to put money away for retirement.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many prostitutes did Bishop Ryan estimate worked in London?

2. How did Mayhew term the young men between 12 and 20 years old who had no job and loitered in the streets?

3. Where did costermongers usually live?

4. What did few adult Jews seldom work as?

5. Where was the convicted thief who was interviewed born?

(see the answer key)

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