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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 3: Our Street Folk.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did the mother of the magician do to the family library?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Donated the library to the London museum.
(c) Sold it all off.
(d) Burned it when she was delirious and thought books were evil.
2. Where did the dust men take the debris?
(a) They dumped it in the Thames.
(b) They took it to a huge dump outside the city.
(c) They dumped it in huge piles.
(d) They piled it up in vacant buildings.
3. How did wholesale suppliers cheat costers?
(a) Holding the stock until it was sold and selling to two different costers.
(b) Adding hidden interest rates.
(c) Making the terms of sell difficult to understand.
(d) Selling rotten produce or shortchanging them.
4. Who often became chimney sweepers?
(a) Many young men since it paid very well.
(b) Destitute orphans.
(c) The tallest member of a Costermonger family.
(d) The smallest member of a Costermonger family.
5. What percentage of costermongers did not own their stock?
(a) Thirty percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Ninety percent.
(d) Seventy-five percent.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did some of the bolder boys do?
2. What did patterers deliver to their potential customers?
3. What is an example of a mutual aid society?
4. Why did some costermonger parents require their children to work?
5. When did the one homeless shelter open?
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