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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. Where did costermongers usually live?
(a) In alms houses.
(b) In a rented room.
(c) In the city parks.
(d) Above their stores.

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

3. What did most costermongers do with their children?
(a) Left the babies to the elements so they didn't have to keep them.
(b) Farmed them out.
(c) Did their best to support them.
(d) Sent them to orphanages.

4. What is an example of a mutual aid society?
(a) Costermen.
(b) Foresters.
(c) Old Relics.
(d) Star Alliance.

5. How were vendors categorized by Mayhew?
(a) By how much money they made.
(b) Type of merchandise sold.
(c) By their place of business.
(d) By the class in which they were born.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the two orphan girls whose story Mayhew told sell?

2. At about what age did many costermonger children begin to sell?

3. Who did not usually bother to wash up even before eating or sleeping?

4. Who worked for very low wages in the hopes of finding something to sell?

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

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