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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 1: Of the London Street-folk.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did a lodging manager do when a child brought in a stolen item for rent?
(a) Let the child stay for the night in exchange for the item.
(b) Gave the child a small fraction of its value and pawned it.
(c) Called the constable.
(d) Gave the child half of what it was worth.

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

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

5. Who most often hosted lodging houses?
(a) Men.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Women.
(d) There was no host.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the low end lodging houses like?

2. What did costermongers hope to do by dark everyday?`

3. How did the renters of low lodging houses eat?

4. To whom did some merchants loan stock at no cost?

5. On what did coster children often waste their money?

(see the answer key)

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