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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did costermongers usually live?
(a) In alms houses.
(b) Above their stores.
(c) In a rented room.
(d) In the city parks.

2. What does Mayhew say the Jewish traders seldom were?
(a) Kind.
(b) Drinkers or gamblers.
(c) Penurious.
(d) Generous.

3. What was another name for a patterer?
(a) Speakeasy.
(b) Riggers.
(c) Montebank.
(d) Con artist.

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

5. 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.

6. What is an example of a mutual aid society?
(a) Star Alliance.
(b) Old Relics.
(c) Foresters.
(d) Costermen.

7. What could the interest rate on stock reach?
(a) 1040 percent per year.
(b) Two hundred percent per year.
(c) Twenty percent per day.
(d) Forty percent per week.

8. What were the two usual reasons customers bought from patterers?
(a) To make fun of the patterers.
(b) They felt God wanted them to buy.
(c) For the entertainment and because they believed the spiel.
(d) The patterers were almost always pretty, young women.

9. On what day of the week were regular customers allowed to stay free in some lodging houses?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Wednesday.

10. What were the low end lodging houses like?
(a) They were just adequate, a little heat and a roof.
(b) In terrible condition with no heat and leaky roofs.
(c) They were typical dwellings for lower middle class.
(d) They were usually clean with decent food.

11. What happened to many coster children if their parents thought they did not bring enough money home at night?
(a) They were thrown out.
(b) They were killed.
(c) They were sold into slavery.
(d) They were beaten.

12. How did the renters of low lodging houses eat?
(a) They pooled food with other renters.
(b) They brought their own food.
(c) Food was included in the rent.
(d) They ate before they came in for the night.

13. How did many musician patterers support themselves?
(a) Making musical instruments.
(b) Selling sheet music.
(c) Selling personalized songs.
(d) Singing for noble houses.

14. What did the two orphan girls whose story Mayhew told sell?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Candy.
(d) Newspapers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were chimney sweeper apprentices often starved?

2. What does Mayhew seem to believe about certain occupations?

3. Where did the street people of London in the 1800s conduct their trade?

4. How did the police sometimes help crossing sweeps?

5. What did costermongers hope to do by dark everyday?`

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