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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 were the two usual reasons customers bought from patterers?
(a) To make fun of the patterers.
(b) For the entertainment and because they believed the spiel.
(c) They felt God wanted them to buy.
(d) The patterers were almost always pretty, young women.

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

3. Who collected coal, small scraps of wood, lost coins and other junk from the deep, sucking, stinking mud?
(a) Mudworms.
(b) Mudmen.
(c) No one; it was not worth collecting.
(d) Mudlarks.

4. 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.

5. What did the mutual aid societies do?
(a) Protect their turf.
(b) Testify for them if they are being cheated.
(c) Protect their equipment.
(d) Collect a small amount from each member to take care of them or their families if need be.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did many musician patterers support themselves?

2. What type of toiletry items were provided by some of the better lodging houses?

3. What was another name for a patterer?

4. What did a publisher who Mayhew knew do for the boy who talked to Mayhew?

5. What kind of selling required the most capital and equipment?

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