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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What was the name of the vaudeville show costers enjoyed?
(a) The Bawdy Ball.
(b) The Punch and Judy show.
(c) The Street Theater.
(d) The Penny Gaff.

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

4. What type of gambling was most popular with costers?
(a) Betting on the horse races.
(b) Playing chess for money.
(c) Playing cards or pitching pennies.
(d) Betting on dog fights.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the children who were put in jail think of the experience?

3. What did the city of London use several tons of per year?

4. What did dustmen do?

5. What is one thing positive Mayhew says about crossing sweeps?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did mudlarks do and how did they bathe?

2. What were some of the positive aspects of being a costermonger?

3. What was the story Mayhew told about a crossing sweep from Dublin?

4. How did some youths work a crossing sweep job and what other ways did they make money?

5. How honest were costers' suppliers and how did the costers deal with dishonesty?

6. How did patterers earn their living and what is an example of a story that demonstrated a patterer's skill?

7. How did some crossing sweep get permanent jobs and why were they given the jobs?

8. What did the patterers do who could be classified as entertainers?

9. What was the usual marriage and family situations like with costermongers?

10. How did Jewish traders survive in London and how does Mayhew portray the Jewish traders?

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