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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 4: Those That Will Not Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What puppeteer did Mayhew interview?
(a) A friend who went to school with him when he was a boy.
(b) His own brother.
(c) A former gentleman's footman.
(d) His own cousin.

2. Why did some costermonger parents require their children to work?
(a) To contribute to family income.
(b) To build their character.
(c) To keep them out of the army.
(d) To make the parents' life easier.

3. What did 307 poor people do for the first time?
(a) Learned to read.
(b) Attended church.
(c) Found a job.
(d) Talked to a Priest.

4. What does Mayhew say is difficult or impossible?
(a) To write a book that is fair to those who are morally defective.
(b) To catalogue all the various ways to earn a living.
(c) To write a book that fails to cover the morally deficient.
(d) To catalogue all the various ways to turn criminal.

5. What was the most common tasks for which costers used math?
(a) Figuring the weights and measurements of their instruments.
(b) Figuring their profits.
(c) Betting on the horse races.
(d) Most costers did not know how to do math.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the puppeteer sometimes change the content of the Punch and Judy play?

2. How many paupers, prisoners and lunatics does he cite?

3. What did Mayhew say all blind musicians had in common?

4. What happened to the man after he was injured?

5. What did the children who were put in jail think of the experience?

(see the answer key)

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