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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the one homeless shelter open?
(a) When temperatures dropped below freezing.
(b) Every night of the year.
(c) From 7 to 8 pm nightly during the winter.
(d) During the summer months only.

2. What seemed to be part of the motivation for a street person to perform?
(a) Attention from an admiring audience.
(b) A desire to move into the noble class by earning enough money.
(c) To be able to steal from the audience as they were caught up in a performance.
(d) Getting away from lives as things such as chimney sweeps, which is what most of their families were.

3. What was one thing the mission about which Hemyng writes intended to do?
(a) Reduce blasphemy.
(b) Increase marriage.
(c) Reduce abandoned children.
(d) Increase the saving of prostitutes to the Lord.

4. What did 307 poor people do for the first time?
(a) Learned to read.
(b) Talked to a Priest.
(c) Attended church.
(d) Found a job.

5. How many were employed as domestic servants?
(a) 12,000.
(b) About 1 million.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 50,000.

6. What does Mayhew say about the education of street folk?
(a) They usually only have one or two years of schooling and if they can read, it is not too well.
(b) He doesn't mention their education.
(c) They were the least eductated of all the common people discussed.
(d) They are better educated than street vendors, and the majority could read.

7. What had recently become illegal in London?
(a) Gerrymandering.
(b) Pornography including obscene books and pictures.
(c) Tobacco use.
(d) Alcohol use.

8. How many prostitutes did the police estimate work in London?
(a) 2-3000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 18-25,000.
(d) 7-8000.

9. What is another thing the London City Mission did?
(a) Watched that people were not taxed unfairly.
(b) Encouraged residents to attend church.
(c) Helped pregnant, unwed women.
(d) Told the police when there was crime in an area.

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

11. How many prostitutes did Bishop Ryan estimate worked in London?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 22,000.
(c) 80,000.
(d) 2,000.

12. What is a "Patent American Air Preserver"?
(a) A way of keeping insects off your person.
(b) An instrument that measures the amount of pollution in the air.
(c) A bogus product the photographer sold.
(d) A Patent that the photographer applied for in the patent office.

13. What were the street folk families like?
(a) They were often families that worked at the lowest echelons of society, such as chimney sweeps.
(b) Often comfortable financially or even wealthy.
(c) They pretty much ran the gamut, but generally very poor.
(d) Most of them do not even know who their parents are.

14. What group did the magician join to get away from home?
(a) The Circ Ole.
(b) The Londondarry Circus.
(c) The P.T. Barnum European Circus.
(d) The Greenwich Fair.

15. What did the casual ward provide?
(a) Food and shelter for 24 hours only.
(b) Guidance.
(c) A place to stay for a maximum of six months.
(d) Job search assistance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say happens to a young girl lured away from home?

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

3. How many civil servants does he cite?

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

5. How many visits per day did each missionary make on average?

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