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

2. Who goes with Chaval when he leaves the Voreux?
(a) Souvarine
(b) Zacharie
(c) Jeanlin
(d) Catherine

3. Where does Chaval go when the miners strike?
(a) to the Jean-Bart pit
(b) to Paris
(c) to England
(d) to LaSalle

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

5. Of what does Lantier try to convince Deneulin?
(a) to keep Jean-Bart running
(b) to fire Chaval
(c) to take on more miners
(d) that all mines must strike

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rasseneur feel about the strike?

2. How do the other miners see Etienne at work?

3. Why is life at the Maheus so difficult?

4. Why does Etienne come out from hiding?

5. What has come to Montsou because of the strike?

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