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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author say happens to a young girl lured away from home?
(a) She was wrongfully held by pimps until her father pays a hostage fee.
(b) She thought she was going to get married.
(c) She was kidnapped into prostitution.
(d) She thought she was going to be a nanny.

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

4. To what may the discrepancy between the police estimate and Bishop Ryan's estimate be attributed?
(a) A difference in how each defines prostitution.
(b) Bishop Ryan would exaggerate in order to rile up the good Christian people.
(c) The police would downplay it in order to not have to arrest so many women.
(d) Hemyng has no idea as to why there is such a discrepancy.

5. What did Mayhew see as a moral defect?
(a) Working on Sundays.
(b) Stealing from those less fortunate.
(c) Not working up to one's full potential.
(d) Not working if one is able to do so.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many were professors and artists?

2. What does Mayhew say separates animals from plants?

3. How long did he and his wife have to save to buy the camera?

4. Whose son was the fire eater?

5. What were buskers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How many visits were done by the London City Mission and what were the results of those visits?

2. What did the people Mayhew called "Punch" do?

3. What was pornography and why did it become illegal in London?

4. How many prostitutes were there in London?

5. What did the London City Mission do?

6. Who was the magician Mayhew interviewed and how did he become a magician?

7. How did the fire eater Mayhew interviewed become one and what was his early life like?

8. How did cab drivers obtain their cabs, how many hours did they work, and what did they sometimes do to mitigate their long hours?

9. What differentiated street folk from patterers?

10. What did conductors do and how did they get paid? What kind of person might become a conductor?

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