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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did many children do about food in the worse lodging houses?
(a) Did not eat.
(b) Steal meat, bacon or potatoes.
(c) Went through the garbage piles.
(d) Beg from other renters.

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

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

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

5. What happened to the man after he was injured?
(a) He was almost blind.
(b) He dragged one leg.
(c) One leg was amputated.
(d) One arm was was amputated.

6. Into what kind of fund did residents of better lodging houses pay?
(a) Entertainment funds.
(b) Newspaper funds.
(c) Medical care funds.
(d) General maintenance funds.

7. What did a lodging manager do when a child brought in a stolen item for rent?
(a) Called the constable.
(b) Let the child stay for the night in exchange for the item.
(c) Gave the child half of what it was worth.
(d) Gave the child a small fraction of its value and pawned it.

8. What did Mayhew say was the reason people from wealthier families became patterers?
(a) Wanderlust.
(b) Believing it was the way God called people to live.
(c) Being kicked out of their home.
(d) Rebellion.

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

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

11. What did the city of London use several tons of per year?
(a) Flour.
(b) Coal.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Corn.

12. What did shovelers do?
(a) Cleared the streets of leaves.
(b) Piled coal ash into heaps.
(c) Picked up horse manure from the streets.
(d) Cleared the streets of snow.

13. What did the crossing sweep who Mayhew interviewed work at before finding an open intersection?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Shining lanterns.
(c) Selling matches.
(d) Selling newspapers.

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

15. Who often became chimney sweepers?
(a) The tallest member of a Costermonger family.
(b) Destitute orphans.
(c) The smallest member of a Costermonger family.
(d) Many young men since it paid very well.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mike manage to live?

2. What did few adult Jews seldom work as?

3. Who were the forerunners to doormen?

4. What happened that people started bathing more often?

5. Who looked down upon chimney sweepers?

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