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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 is a ducasse?
(a) a type of duel
(b) a card game
(c) a local fair
(d) a board game

2. Who is Zacharie?
(a) the oldest Maheu child
(b) Etienne's cousin
(c) a young street vendor
(d) Chaval's brother

3. What is the mining settlement called where the novel takes place?
(a) Two Hundred
(b) Verus De
(c) Two Hundred and Forty
(d) Village de Mine

4. What does Souvarine think is the solution to the miners' problems?
(a) total destruction of everything
(b) prayer
(c) working harder
(d) banding together

5. What is the house number where Bonnemort lives?
(a) number 33
(b) number 24
(c) number 18
(d) number 16

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is La Maheude upset about her family?

2. What does Etienne suggest the workers create?

3. Who is Léon Grégoire?

4. Why do the Maheus see Catherine moving out as a traitor act to the family?

5. Why was Etienne fired from his previous job?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in the mine in November and what was the consequences?

2. Souvarine and Etienne have a discussion after the tragedy of the shooting. What do they talk about and what does Souvarine do?

3. What does the company tell the miners about the mine at Voreux in February?

4. Why is it almost impossible by February for the miners to continue the strike?

5. Where does Etienne move in August and why?

6. What does Lantier do when the miners begin to reject him?

7. How do the Grégoires repond to La Maheude's request for help?

8. What is the Advantage and what happens there?

9. What does Lantier see Jeanlin do and how does he help the boy?

10. What happens to Etienne as he works in the mines, as far as his job is concerned?

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