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

2. What did a publisher who Mayhew knew do for the boy who talked to Mayhew?
(a) Give him odd jobs occasionally.
(b) Adopted him.
(c) Helped him get an apprenticeship.
(d) Sent him to America.

3. What happened to many coster children if their parents thought they did not bring enough money home at night?
(a) They were sold into slavery.
(b) They were beaten.
(c) They were killed.
(d) They were thrown out.

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

5. With whom does Mike live with after he is an orphan?
(a) No where.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His teenage sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did a coster sleep if sales were bad?

2. What did dustmen do?

3. What did Mayhew say was the reason people from wealthier families became patterers?

4. At about what age did many costermonger children begin to sell?

5. What did most costermongers do with their children?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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