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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. What kind of education did most costermongers have?
(a) Many could read, write and speak a foreign language.
(b) Very little or none.
(c) Most went through eight years of public school.
(d) They have to go up to sixth grade in public school.

2. What does Mayhew seem to believe about certain occupations?
(a) They are fit only for the most unworthy of men.
(b) They are noble occupations.
(c) They are a great shame to perform.
(d) They are hereditary rather than learned.

3. What did Mayhew think of the reason for wealthier people to become patterers?
(a) He thought it was against God's commandments.
(b) He had no personal opinion.
(c) He thought it was extremely dishonorable.
(d) He thought it was courageous.

4. At about what age did many costermonger children begin to sell?
(a) Eight.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Six.

5. What percentage of costermongers did not own their stock?
(a) Seventy-five percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Thirty percent.
(d) Ninety percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who looked down upon chimney sweepers?

2. What did Mayhew say all blind musicians had in common?

3. Where did the dust men take the debris?

4. What percentage of people earning their living on the streets were vendors?

5. From what ailment did Mayhew say all skilled laborers suffered?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did most costermongers and their families live

2. What were some of the circumstances in the better lodging houses for the street people?

3. Where did orphan or runaway coster children live and how did they get money?

4. What was the story Mayhew wrote about a Cheap Jack?

5. How much education did most costermongers have and what was the general extent of their intellectual abilities?

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

7. What modern institutions did Costermongers fill in the 1800's London and what are some of the merchandise they sold? What did the more intelligent costers do?

8. Who normally held a crossing sweep position and how was that job viewed? How did the crossing sweep have to eat sometimes?

9. How did dustmen and mudlarks help each other?

10. About how much coal was used in London in a year and who was responsible for cleaning the aftermath of coal use?

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