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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 type of toiletry items were provided by some of the better lodging houses?
(a) Towels and soap.
(b) Baht powder and shaving cream.
(c) Soap and razors.
(d) Laundry soap and wash boards.

2. What kind of education did most costermongers have?
(a) Many could read, write and speak a foreign language.
(b) Most went through eight years of public school.
(c) They have to go up to sixth grade in public school.
(d) Very little or none.

3. Who did not usually bother to wash up even before eating or sleeping?
(a) Ragmen.
(b) Mudlarks.
(c) Chimney sweeps.
(d) Everyone.

4. At about what age did many costermonger children begin to sell?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Six.
(d) Eight.

5. What percentage of people earning their living on the streets were vendors?
(a) Sixty percent.
(b) Eighty-five percent.
(c) Seventy-five percent.
(d) Fifty percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were chimney sweeper apprentices often starved?

2. What were the low end lodging houses like?

3. What did the city of London use several tons of per year?

4. What did Ragmen do?

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

(see the answer key)

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