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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2: Of the Street-Jews.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What could the interest rate on stock reach?
(a) Forty percent per week.
(b) Twenty percent per day.
(c) 1040 percent per year.
(d) Two hundred percent per year.

2. What did Mayhew think of the reason for wealthier people to become patterers?
(a) He thought it was courageous.
(b) He had no personal opinion.
(c) He thought it was against God's commandments.
(d) He thought it was extremely dishonorable.

3. What did one of the young thieves who belonged to a gang tell Mayhew?
(a) That the older boys did most of the thieving.
(b) He's rather earn an honest living if there were a job.
(c) Their parents usually beat them if they didn't bring something home everyday.
(d) The rich don't care about them so why shouldn't they steal from them.

4. What did costermongers hope to do by dark everyday?`
(a) Sell enough merchandise to feed their family every night.
(b) They had no daily goals.
(c) Win big at gambling.
(d) Steal and fence enough goods for whiskey.

5. Which group in London dominated wholesale trading?
(a) Irish.
(b) French.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Italian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mayhew say the Jewish traders seldom were?

2. What was a job of last resort?

3. What percentage of people earning their living on the streets were vendors?

4. What were the two usual reasons customers bought from patterers?

5. What did dustmen do?

(see the answer key)

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