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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Chapter 1-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what do Etienne and Souvarine talk?
(a) escaping the mines and going to Paris
(b) how to make money
(c) how to be a good hewer
(d) the future of the workers

2. What does Etienne create with advice from his friend Pluchart?
(a) a workers' union
(b) a new system of managment
(c) a new way to hew
(d) a new pay system

3. Where does Etienne see Jeanlin go one evening?
(a) to Denneulin
(b) to Chaval
(c) to the Hennebeaus'
(d) through a hidden hole

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Etienne Lantier arrive the night at the beginning of the novel?

2. From what hereditary disease does Etienne suffer?

3. What type of work does Bonnemort do for the mine?

4. How does the union help the miners?

5. Where did Léon Grégoire get his money?

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