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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did crossing sweeps do?
(a) Kept their assigned intersection clean.
(b) Swept the street in front of a gentleman or lady as they were crossing it.
(c) Went through the city cleaning all the public and church crosses.
(d) Swept the lantern cross pieces.

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

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

4. What happened that people started bathing more often?
(a) A law forcing everyone to bath at least once a week.
(b) A law forcing everyone to bath at least once a month.
(c) The rise of public baths.
(d) Charity organizations opening more and offering free baths.

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

6. What did costermongers hope to do by dark everyday?`
(a) Steal and fence enough goods for whiskey.
(b) Sell enough merchandise to feed their family every night.
(c) They had no daily goals.
(d) Win big at gambling.

7. 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 usually clean with decent food.
(d) They were typical dwellings for lower middle class.

8. What did few adult Jews seldom work as?
(a) Tailors.
(b) Bankers.
(c) Costermongers.
(d) Butchers.

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

10. Who in Mike's family eventually emigrated to America?
(a) His sister and her husband.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His mother and her second husband.
(d) His older brother.

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

12. What kind of low lodging house segregated the renters by sex?
(a) Only the one run by the government.
(b) The best of the lodging houses.
(c) All of the lodging houses did this.
(d) The ones that were also brothels.

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

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

15. What did Mayhew say all blind musicians had in common?
(a) They were all the best musicians.
(b) They were all poor musicians.
(c) They were all religious.
(d) They were all blind at birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what did coster children often waste their money?

2. How did the police sometimes help crossing sweeps?

3. What did a lodging manager do when a child brought in a stolen item for rent?

4. What happened when Mike's father died?

5. What kind of selling required the most capital and equipment?

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