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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 happened that people started bathing more often?
(a) A law forcing everyone to bath at least once a month.
(b) A law forcing everyone to bath at least once a week.
(c) Charity organizations opening more and offering free baths.
(d) The rise of public baths.

2. What did Hemyng define as prostitution?
(a) Only if a man pays for sex.
(b) Only if a woman accepting money for sex.
(c) A woman having sex with anyone except her husband.
(d) Only when two people who do not know each other have sex.

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

4. 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.

5. How did coster runaway children usually support themselves?
(a) Selling items on the street.
(b) Joining the military.
(c) Living with another adult.
(d) Entering orphanages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one thing the London City Mission did?

2. What was one thing the mission about which Hemyng writes intended to do?

3. Altogether, what is the approximate number of women and children?

4. How did Mayhew term the young men between 12 and 20 years old who had no job and loitered in the streets?

5. What were fences in the section by John Binny?

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