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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 happened that people started bathing more often?
(a) Charity organizations opening more and offering free baths.
(b) The rise of public baths.
(c) A law forcing everyone to bath at least once a week.
(d) A law forcing everyone to bath at least once a month.

2. How often did chimney sweeps bathe in times earlier than that of Mayhew?
(a) Everyday.
(b) Twice a week.
(c) Seldom.
(d) Never.

3. Which group in London dominated wholesale trading?
(a) Irish.
(b) French.
(c) Italian.
(d) Jewish.

4. What did dustmen do?
(a) Dusted the store fronts.
(b) Kept the noble's carriages clean.
(c) Cleaned out chimneys.
(d) Hauled off the coal dust and ashes.

5. How did the police sometimes help crossing sweeps?
(a) By protecting their territory for them.
(b) By finding them odd jobs.
(c) They looked down upon the crossing sweeps and would not help them.
(d) By recommending them for better jobs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the renters of low lodging houses eat?

2. What did a lodging manager do when a child brought in a stolen item for rent?

3. What were the low end lodging houses like?

4. What did costermongers hope to do by dark everyday?`

5. What did patterers deliver to their potential customers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the costermongers obtain their merchandise and what were the circumstances for borrowing?

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

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

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

5. What area of trade did the Jewish traders dominant and what did Ragmen do?

6. What caused a class hierarchy in immigrants in London?

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

8. What were the largest group of London street people and what did they do for a living?

9. Where did most costermongers and their families live

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

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