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

2. For what is Etienne hired?
(a) as a loader
(b) as a horse tender
(c) as a carpenter
(d) as a hewer

3. Why does Bonnemort go outside to cough when the visitors are there?
(a) so he won't scare them
(b) so he won't be embarrassed
(c) so he won't get anything on them
(d) so they don't know he's sick

4. From what hereditary disease does Etienne suffer?
(a) weak bones
(b) diabetes
(c) Huntingdon
(d) alcoholism

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chaval do as Etienne is getting ready to kiss Catherine?

2. Why is it difficult for the miners to get out of the Jean-Bart mine when the cables are cut?

3. Where do the miners go when they leave the Hennebeaus?

4. What do the Montsu miners do after they are finished at the Jean-Bart mine?

5. When is the provident fund started by Etienne empty?

(see the answer key)

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