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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Lantier decide to hide?
(a) Chaval is going to kill him
(b) he steals some food
(c) his old supervisor is looking for him
(d) the miners are mad at him

2. How does Deneulin respond to Etienne's request?
(a) he refuses
(b) he ignores it
(c) he says he'll decide tomorrow
(d) he says yes

3. Of what does the company try to convince the miners?
(a) to go home for a week
(b) to move away
(c) to negotiate
(d) to return to work

4. What is the name of Bonnemort's family?
(a) the Marsades family
(b) the Maheu family
(c) the Forty family
(d) the Dauques family

5. What happens when the Borains arrive at the mine to work?
(a) Etienne talks them out of working
(b) nothing
(c) the miners kill them
(d) the miners on strike gather there

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Negrel declare about the pit?

2. What do the miners do when the Grégoires pull up to the Hennebeaus' house?

3. What promise to Etienne does Chaval break?

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

5. What are the miners requesting at Hennebeau's house?

(see the answer key)

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