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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 patterers deliver to their potential customers?
(a) Long, creative sales pitches.
(b) Short, pithy sales pitches.
(c) Sermons on the sinfulness of life.
(d) Monologues on how to do things.

2. Who were the forerunners to doormen?
(a) Crossing sweeps hired to open the door to an establishment.
(b) Costermongers.
(c) No job mentioned in this book.
(d) Mudlarks.

3. What did the photographic man do before this job?
(a) Banjo player.
(b) Bar keeper.
(c) Singer.
(d) Bouncer.

4. To whom did some merchants loan stock at no cost?
(a) Female costers who sold newspapers.
(b) Male costers who sold food.
(c) Female costers selling nearby.
(d) Male costers with families.

5. How did Mike manage to live?
(a) By pilfering from the marketplace.
(b) By joining a crossing sweep gang.
(c) His master with whom he apprenticed gave him room and board.
(d) By selling bits and pieces he'd find on the street.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who usually watched Jewish girls who peddled fruit?

2. Whose son was the fire eater?

3. What was the average wage of someone in the job in number 69?

4. What did some of the bolder boys do?

5. What did most costermongers do with their children?

(see the answer key)

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