2. What was the most common tasks for which costers used math?
(a) Figuring their profits.
(b) Figuring the weights and measurements of their instruments.
(c) Betting on the horse races.
(d) Most costers did not know how to do math.

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

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

5. What type of modern store did costermongers fill in 1800s London?
(a) Convenience stores.
(b) Grocery stores.
(c) Department stores.
(d) Clothing stores.

6. What did the children who were put in jail think of the experience?
(a) They usually were beat at home when they got out of jail.
(b) They were proud of themselves.
(c) They were ashamed.
(d) They saw it as a vacation.

7. To what was street vending an alternative?
(a) Being sent to the military.
(b) Going to jail.
(c) Being hung.
(d) Going to the workhouse.

8. Where did the street people of London in the 1800s conduct their trade?
(a) In booths in the market.
(b) Only in the city park.
(c) In their stores.
(d) On the streets and sidewalks.

9. What did some of the boys do to earn tips while serving as crossing sweeps?
(a) Run alongside buses and entertain the passengers.
(b) Saddle horses.
(c) Help a chimney sweep take his equipment up on the roof.
(d) Hang out wash.

10. What was a huckster who sold hardware at a fair called?
(a) A Penny Call.
(b) A Cheap Con.
(c) A Hustler.
(d) A Cheap Jack.

11. 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.

12. Why did Mayhew say many costermongers lived in sin?
(a) They never attended church.
(b) They were unmarried.
(c) They refused to acknowledge the crown.
(d) They stole merchandise.

13. How long had the crossing week Mayhew interviewed work as a crossing sweep at the time of the interview?
(a) More than a decade.
(b) A few months.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 20 years.

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

15. What did Ragmen do?
(a) Washed carriages with rags.
(b) Play various instruments on street corners.
(c) Washed windows with rags.
(d) Wandered the streets buying used clothing.