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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mayhew say separates animals from plants?

2. What have many tried to do according to the narrator?

3. Altogether, what is the approximate number of women and children?

4. What does Mayhew say humans must do?

5. What did the photographic man do before this job?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the people Mayhew called "Punch" do?

2. What was pornography and why did it become illegal in London?

3. How did cab drivers obtain their cabs, how many hours did they work, and what did they sometimes do to mitigate their long hours?

4. What did bus drivers own, what did they do and what other work had many of them done? How often did they work and what did their work prevent?

5. What was the photographer's business like according to Mayhew?

6. What does Mayhew say someone who is unable to work must do and how does he feel about those able to work who won't?

7. Who did Mayhew call street folk?

8. Why was the clown Mayhew interviewed depressed and why was he a clown?

9. What differentiated street folk from patterers?

10. Who did Halliday say were swindlers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mike joined a gang of crossing sweeper youths. They tumbled together and worked sweeping an intersection together. Each kept his own tips, but they prepared meals together and rented a room together in a low lodging house. When there was not enough money for a room, they slept under the arched stone doorway of a church.

1. What were the advantages of youths working together? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. What were the disadvantages of youths working together?Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss in what ways a youth gang as above would be considered a family unit. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Mayhew states that the necessity of finding food separates animals from plants. Humans also must work for a living. Someone who is physically or mentally unable to work must rely on others, or on charity.

1. Discuss what you think separates animals from plants that are different from what Mayhew has said. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think all humans should have to work for a living? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. What types of obligations do you think society has towards the physically or mentally handicapped? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Mayhew made sweeping generalizations about the different types of street people, and often relied on stereotypes. For example, he claimed that all blind musicians were highly religious while all "mechanics" or skilled laborers were melancholy, suffering from chronic depression.

1. Refute or defend the following statement: Stereotypes about people are generally true. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. How do you think stereotyping or generalization in research can affect the results of research? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. The only statement that can be true about a research population is if that population consist of only one person. Discuss this statement in view of Mayhew's tendency to stereotype groups of individuals.

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