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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. What does Pluchart say are the union's goals?
(a) to make everyone rich
(b) to help all people, rich and poor
(c) the emancipation of the workers
(d) to destroy the mines

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

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

4. What does Etienne talk about with his new friend?
(a) girlfriends
(b) the war
(c) the strike
(d) their families and homes

5. What does the grocer want in order to help La Maheude?
(a) Catherine to come to the store
(b) one of La Maheude's family heirlooms
(c) La Maheude to work for him
(d) La Maheude to sleep with him

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Bonnemort delaying his retirement?

2. Who is knocked out in the Jean-Bart explosion?

3. What is Leon Grégoire's biggest concern in life?

4. How do the mine owners lower the workers' pay in October?

5. What happens in the Maheu family as the strike is called?

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