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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 type of gambling was most popular with costers?
(a) Playing cards or pitching pennies.
(b) Playing chess for money.
(c) Betting on dog fights.
(d) Betting on the horse races.

2. What is one thing positive Mayhew says about crossing sweeps?
(a) They were generally honest.
(b) They worked as hard as they were capable.
(c) They would attempt any job.
(d) They were cheerful.

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

4. Where does the puppeteer perform his Punch and Judy show?
(a) On the particular street corner that he rents and pays taxes to the city.
(b) In an auditorium or theater.
(c) In the streets, at private parties, and at birthday parties for the children of noblemen.
(d) Mostly along the boardwalk that runs along the Thames River.

5. Why did some of these low-end workers go into the business?
(a) Because they make pretty good pay.
(b) Because their family was in it before them.
(c) Because they like being outside.
(d) No reason is mentioned.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one casual warder profiled?

2. To whom did some merchants loan stock at no cost?

3. Who collected coal, small scraps of wood, lost coins and other junk from the deep, sucking, stinking mud?

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

5. In what field did many performers get their start?

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