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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 a lodging manager do when a child brought in a stolen item for rent?
(a) Gave the child a small fraction of its value and pawned it.
(b) Gave the child half of what it was worth.
(c) Called the constable.
(d) Let the child stay for the night in exchange for the item.

2. How many visits per day did each missionary make on average?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 2.
(d) 12.

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

4. Who looked down upon chimney sweepers?
(a) Everyone.
(b) Costermongers.
(c) The mudlarks.
(d) The other chimney sweepers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mayhew say the Jewish traders seldom were?

2. Why did the puppeteer leave his former job to become a puppeteer?

3. What did the author call a place where women have sex for drugs?

4. What did most costermongers do with their children?

5. How often did chimney sweeps bathe in times earlier than that of Mayhew?

(see the answer key)

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