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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 most often hosted lodging houses?
(a) Women.
(b) There was no host.
(c) Men.
(d) Soldiers.

2. On what did coster children often waste their money?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Betting.
(c) Sweets.
(d) Beer.

3. Who worked for very low wages in the hopes of finding something to sell?
(a) Beaters.
(b) Sorters.
(c) Cleaners.
(d) Sifters.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of low lodging house segregated the renters by sex?

2. Why did some young costers commit petty crimes?

3. What happened to many coster children if their parents thought they did not bring enough money home at night?

4. What did shovelers do?

5. What was the name of the vaudeville show costers enjoyed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Who were generally managers of lodging houses and what happened to a child who did not have the money for lodging?

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

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

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

7. What types of generalizations did Mayhew make about the London street people and how did this reflect Victorian thinking on industrialization?

8. How did crossing sweeps earn a living?

9. How much money did sifters make, what did they do and why did they do it?

10. How did dustmen and mudlarks help each other?

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