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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 were fences in the section by John Binny?
(a) How the government separated the criminal sections of town from other areas.
(b) A way to keep your business from your neighbor's eyes.
(c) Receivers of stolen goods.
(d) The way the rich did not have to think about the poor.

2. What did some of the bolder boys do?
(a) Protected some of the more timid vendors.
(b) Took the leavings out of the empty coal barges.
(c) Ran errands to nobles who often would have them arrested.
(d) Collected the leavings out of the empty grain bins.

3. What did the clown hide from his neighbors?
(a) Nothing.
(b) That he came from a very wealthy family.
(c) His occupation.
(d) The good money he makes.

4. How were street folk different from patterers?
(a) Patterers used entertainment to sell a product and street folk entertain for tips.
(b) They were exactly the same; just a different term.
(c) Street folk would try to sell wares along with their entertaining.
(d) Patterers never sold wares.

5. How did Mike manage to live?
(a) By joining a crossing sweep gang.
(b) By pilfering from the marketplace.
(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. What does Mayhew say about the education of street folk?

2. What were most common in Whitechapel, Shadwell, Spitalfields?

3. What did Hemyng say about the French woman?

4. What did the mother of the magician do to the family library?

5. According to the author, how did the gypsy women make money?

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