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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 wholesale suppliers cheat costers?
(a) Holding the stock until it was sold and selling to two different costers.
(b) Adding hidden interest rates.
(c) Selling rotten produce or shortchanging them.
(d) Making the terms of sell difficult to understand.

2. What did the father of the magician that Mayhew interviewed do for a living?
(a) He was a constable.
(b) He was a mayor of a small town.
(c) He worked in the Customs Office.
(d) He was a policeman.

3. What had one crossing sweep worked at until he was injured at age 36?
(a) A bricklayer.
(b) A painter.
(c) A carpenter.
(d) A ostler.

4. Where was the convicted thief who was interviewed born?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Sussex.
(c) Paris.
(d) A gypsy camp.

5. What did Mayhew see as a moral defect?
(a) Not working up to one's full potential.
(b) Working on Sundays.
(c) Not working if one is able to do so.
(d) Stealing from those less fortunate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did a publisher who Mayhew knew do for the boy who talked to Mayhew?

2. What did shovelers do?

3. What did the casual ward provide?

4. What percentage of people earning their living on the streets were vendors?

5. What type of freedom did costers enjoy that other workers did not?

(see the answer key)

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