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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VII: Chapter 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Etienne hear talking as he walks?
(a) Chaval and Catherine
(b) La Maheude and Bonnemort
(c) Jacques and Catherine
(d) Jeanlin and Coltier

2. By what name does Bonnemort's daughter-in-law go?
(a) Isabella
(b) Cecelia
(c) La Maheude
(d) Dominique

3. What keeps groundwater out of the mine?
(a) timbers
(b) a concrete wall
(c) plastic sheets
(d) packed clay

4. What type of work does Bonnemort do for the mine?
(a) tends the horses
(b) picker
(c) carter
(d) runs the cable

5. Why does Lantier decide to hide?
(a) he steals some food
(b) his old supervisor is looking for him
(c) Chaval is going to kill him
(d) the miners are mad at him

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lantier think he must do to save Catherine?

2. Why did the Grégoires refuse to help the miners?

3. How does Etienne become a good hewer?

4. What does Deneulin ask of Gregoire?

5. Of what does the company try to convince the miners?

(see the answer key)

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