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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 did the police sometimes help crossing sweeps?
(a) By recommending them for better jobs.
(b) By finding them odd jobs.
(c) They looked down upon the crossing sweeps and would not help them.
(d) By protecting their territory for them.

2. What did one Jewish trader claim to have purchased?
(a) An old cloak belonging to the King.
(b) A bishop's miter.
(c) An old cloak belonging to the Queen.
(d) A knight's sword.

3. What does Mayhew say about the education of street folk?
(a) They were the least eductated of all the common people discussed.
(b) They are better educated than street vendors, and the majority could read.
(c) He doesn't mention their education.
(d) They usually only have one or two years of schooling and if they can read, it is not too well.

4. What did the fire eater have to do once to win five shillings on a bet?
(a) Walk on a tightrope forty feet off the ground while eating fire.
(b) Kill 20 rats in a cage with his teeth.
(c) Jump into the Thames River while on fire.
(d) Kill a cobra with his teeth.

5. What does Mayhew say separates animals from plants?
(a) The necessity of finding food.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Mobility.
(d) The force of breath.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the father of the magician that Mayhew interviewed do for a living?

2. What did shovelers do?

3. What motivated the clown to continue working?

4. Where did the dust men take the debris?

5. What did some people who was physically and mentally able to work do?

(see the answer key)

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