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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 3: Our Street Folk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did dustmen do?
(a) Cleaned out chimneys.
(b) Dusted the store fronts.
(c) Kept the noble's carriages clean.
(d) Hauled off the coal dust and ashes.

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

3. What kind of low lodging house segregated the renters by sex?
(a) Only the one run by the government.
(b) The best of the lodging houses.
(c) The ones that were also brothels.
(d) All of the lodging houses did this.

4. Where did a coster sleep if sales were bad?
(a) In the doorway of a shop or church.
(b) In the debtor's prison.
(c) In the city parks.
(d) In the homeless shelter.

5. What were the two usual reasons customers bought from patterers?
(a) They felt God wanted them to buy.
(b) For the entertainment and because they believed the spiel.
(c) To make fun of the patterers.
(d) The patterers were almost always pretty, young women.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With whom does Mike live with after he is an orphan?

3. How often did chimney sweeps bathe in times earlier than that of Mayhew?

4. What did the clown hide from his neighbors?

5. What was a job of last resort?

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