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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. On what day of the week were regular customers allowed to stay free in some lodging houses?
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Sunday.

2. Where did the street people of London in the 1800s conduct their trade?
(a) On the streets and sidewalks.
(b) In their stores.
(c) Only in the city park.
(d) In booths in the market.

3. What did shovelers do?
(a) Piled coal ash into heaps.
(b) Cleared the streets of snow.
(c) Cleared the streets of leaves.
(d) Picked up horse manure from the streets.

4. What did the children who were put in jail think of the experience?
(a) They saw it as a vacation.
(b) They were ashamed.
(c) They usually were beat at home when they got out of jail.
(d) They were proud of themselves.

5. What was another name for a patterer?
(a) Speakeasy.
(b) Montebank.
(c) Con artist.
(d) Riggers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the forerunners to doormen?

2. What type of freedom did costers enjoy that other workers did not?

3. What was a job of last resort?

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

5. Who looked down upon chimney sweepers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did dustmen and mudlarks help each other?

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

4. What are the six categories the author separated the London street people into and how did these street people generally earn their living?

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

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

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

8. How honest were costers' suppliers and how did the costers deal with dishonesty?

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

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

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