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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is La Maheude given instead of food?
(a) clothes for the children
(b) money
(c) a job
(d) nothing

2. What do the Montsou miners do to the Jean-Bart mine?
(a) nothing
(b) they burn it
(c) they flood it
(d) they destroy it

3. How does Chaval feel about Catherine?
(a) he loves her
(b) he respects her
(c) he likes her
(d) he feels nothing

4. Why is the meeting of the miners and Lantier stopped early?
(a) the miners decide to end the strike
(b) the miners attack him
(c) the owners agree to the demands
(d) the police come

5. How do the visitors treat the people in the village?
(a) with aloofness
(b) with kindness
(c) with surface politeness
(d) with irritation

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Etienne meet on the first day of the job that he likes?

2. How are the miners presented to the visitors?

3. How is Chaval feeling about the relationship between Catherine and Etienne?

4. Why do the Maheus invite Etienne to live with them?

5. What does Etienne tell the miners he wants to fight?

(see the answer key)

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