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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) Speakeasy.
(b) Riggers.
(c) Con artist.
(d) Montebank.

2. What type of gambling was most popular with costers?
(a) Playing chess for money.
(b) Betting on dog fights.
(c) Betting on the horse races.
(d) Playing cards or pitching pennies.

3. Where did the dust men take the debris?
(a) They dumped it in the Thames.
(b) They piled it up in vacant buildings.
(c) They took it to a huge dump outside the city.
(d) They dumped it in huge piles.

4. 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) Sent him to America.
(d) Helped him get an apprenticeship.

5. Where did costermongers usually live?
(a) In the city parks.
(b) In a rented room.
(c) Above their stores.
(d) In alms houses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the forerunners to doormen?

2. What did Ragmen do?

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

4. Where did the street people of London in the 1800s conduct their trade?

5. How often did chimney sweeps bathe in times earlier than that of Mayhew?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did crossing sweeps earn a living?

4. Describe the facilities that were opened between 1847 and 1849 that caused the chimney sweeps to wash more often.

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

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

7. Where did most costermongers and their families live

8. Who hired dustmen and how did they do their work?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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