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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 another name for a patterer?
(a) Montebank.
(b) Con artist.
(c) Riggers.
(d) Speakeasy.
2. How did coster runaway children usually support themselves?
(a) Selling items on the street.
(b) Entering orphanages.
(c) Living with another adult.
(d) Joining the military.
3. What kind of low lodging house segregated the renters by sex?
(a) All of the lodging houses did this.
(b) Only the one run by the government.
(c) The ones that were also brothels.
(d) The best of the lodging houses.
4. What did the most intelligent and well-to-do costers sell?
(a) Food and drink.
(b) Hats and scarfs.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Sewing goods.
5. What did the two orphan girls whose story Mayhew told sell?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Candy.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Ragmen do?
2. What did the city of London use several tons of per year?
3. Who often undersold Jewish traders?
4. With whom does Mike live with after he is an orphan?
5. On what did coster children often waste their money?
Short Essay Questions
1. How much money did sifters make, what did they do and why did they do it?
2. What did the patterers do who could be classified as entertainers?
3. Who hired dustmen and how did they do their work?
4. Who normally held a crossing sweep position and how was that job viewed? How did the crossing sweep have to eat sometimes?
5. What caused a class hierarchy in immigrants in London?
6. What were some of the circumstances in the better lodging houses for the street people?
7. What were some of the positive aspects of being a costermonger?
8. How did crossing sweeps earn a living?
9. What area of trade did the Jewish traders dominant and what did Ragmen do?
10. What types of generalizations did Mayhew make about the London street people and how did this reflect Victorian thinking on industrialization?
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