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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What motivated the clown to continue working?
(a) He will be arrested for breaking a contract.
(b) His wife and children.
(c) He likes the work if it wasn't for the lack of prestige.
(d) His fear of failure.

2. What did the magician earn at the time of Mayhew's interview with him?
(a) 1 pound a week.
(b) 4 shillings a week.
(c) 25 shillings a month.
(d) 4 pounds a week.

3. What were buskers?
(a) People who hawk wares.
(b) People who are insane but harmless.
(c) People who are only temporarily homeless and perfectly sane.
(d) Street performers.

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

5. What did a 19-year-old newspaper printer like?
(a) Men.
(b) Expensive dresses and jewelry.
(c) To eat and drink extravagantly.
(d) To have more than she needed.

6. How many visits per day did each missionary make on average?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 12.

7. What was one thing the London City Mission did?
(a) Told the police when there was crime in an area.
(b) Went door to door and read scripture.
(c) Helped the merchants to keep track of vagrants who steal.
(d) Watched that people were not taxed unfairly.

8. Who were most of the street folk Mayhew discussed?
(a) Entertainers.
(b) The Homeless.
(c) The Insane.
(d) Prostitutes.

9. What were 381 missionaries paid for in 1861?
(a) 1.8 million home visits.
(b) Distributing literature about birth control.
(c) Distributing 30 million Bibles.
(d) Converted 1.8 million to Christianity.

10. On the average, how many tracts did each person accept when they were being handed out?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) None.
(d) 1 or 2.

11. What did Hemyng call a soldier who was supported by a wealthy woman?
(a) A gigolo.
(b) A male prostitute.
(c) A pariah.
(d) A fool.

12. What group does Mayhew include among street folk that seems out of place?
(a) Dentists.
(b) Bakers.
(c) Physicians.
(d) Drivers of horse-drawn omnibuses.

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

14. Who is one casual warder profiled?
(a) A mixed race teenaged girl.
(b) An Indian man.
(c) A young boy.
(d) A black woman whose parents had been slaves in America.

15. To what does Nemyng attribute the spread of vice in Europe?
(a) The advent of new social mores among the young.
(b) He has no idea what is the cause.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) The establishment of so many splinter groups from the Catholic church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the clown hide from his neighbors?

2. How many prostitutes did Bishop Ryan estimate worked in London?

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

4. What does Mayhew say humans must do?

5. What did Hemyng say about the French woman?

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