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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For how long had the clown worked in that capacity?

3. Who is one casual warder profiled?

4. How did most street folk learn their trade?

5. To what does Hemyng say the theater, fireworks, low lodging houses, drinking, smoking, the music hall and blasphemy contribute?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who did Tuckniss call a prostitute?

5. What did the London City Mission do?

6. What was a "Dolly mop" and who did the author consider one?

7. What was the purpose of the mission?

8. How prevalent was theft, where did it often occur and how did a thief make money on stolen goods?

9. What was an example of a male prostitute the author gave?

10. Why was the clown Mayhew interviewed depressed and why was he a clown?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mayhew decried the fact that many couples in this group were unmarried, living in sin according to his beliefs. He reluctantly noted that despite the lack of a church ceremony, most were faithful to their mates and did their best to support their children.

1. Discuss the reasons that costermonger couples might not marry. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Discuss, in depth, what you think the fact that couples without a church marriage ceremony were faithful to each other, implies about church sanctioned marriage. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Why do you think Mayhew was reluctant to admit that unmarried couples were often monogamous and took care of their children. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Most costermongers were uneducated, and had attended the free public schools only for a few years, or not at all. Although costers were adept at adding and subtracting to figure their profits, they were ignorant of multiplication and very few could read or write.

1. Discuss how lack of education contributes to poverty. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Discuss some of the reasons that might keep a child of a costermonger family from attending free public schools. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Taking into consideration the factors of poverty, should the government of London in this era have made school mandatory? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Mayhew made sweeping generalizations about the different types of street people, and often relied on stereotypes. For example, he claimed that all blind musicians were highly religious while all "mechanics" or skilled laborers were melancholy, suffering from chronic depression.

1. Refute or defend the following statement: Stereotypes about people are generally true. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. How do you think stereotyping or generalization in research can affect the results of research? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. The only statement that can be true about a research population is if that population consist of only one person. Discuss this statement in view of Mayhew's tendency to stereotype groups of individuals.

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