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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Etienne go to rent a room?
(a) Marchiennes
(b) Le Voreux
(c) the Jolly Fellow
(d) the Advantage

2. Who intervenes at the Hennebearus' to save Cécile?
(a) Etienne
(b) Bonnmorte
(c) Catherine
(d) Deneulin

3. How do the other miners see Etienne at work?
(a) as an educated person
(b) as lazy
(c) as too hard working
(d) as stupid

4. Where does Etienne Lantier arrive the night at the beginning of the novel?
(a) America
(b) Paris
(c) Marsellies
(d) the Voreux mining pit

5. Who is knocked out in the Jean-Bart explosion?
(a) Etienne
(b) Chaval
(c) Catherine
(d) Jeanlin

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is Etienne hired?

2. How do the miners feel about the Borains?

3. How old is Etienne Lantier?

4. Why is the meeting of the miners and Lantier stopped early?

5. Why does Etienne come out from hiding?

(see the answer key)

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