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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the supervisors fine the Maheu team?
(a) for not meeting the daily quota
(b) for stopping work before lunch
(c) for talking too much
(d) for faulty timbering

2. What is a ducasse?
(a) a board game
(b) a local fair
(c) a type of duel
(d) a card game

3. What does Etienne create with advice from his friend Pluchart?
(a) a new way to hew
(b) a new pay system
(c) a workers' union
(d) a new system of managment

4. Why is the innkeeper friendly with Etienne?
(a) he knows Pluchart
(b) he likes new people
(c) Etienne buys everyone drinks
(d) he has money

5. How does Léon Grégoire make his money?
(a) from the mine profits
(b) he's a trader
(c) he's a banker
(d) from the grocery store

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

7. Why do the Maheus invite Etienne to live with them?
(a) they need more money
(b) they need help with the house
(c) the oldest child left home
(d) Catherine wants to marry him

8. What is one of the reasons Etienne thinks he might be working in the mine?
(a) he wants to own a coal mine
(b) he likes to mine coal
(c) he enjoys being underground
(d) he's drawn to Catherine

9. Why do the miners hate the supervisors?
(a) they don't work much
(b) they hit the miners with whips
(c) they have more money than the miners
(d) they're mean and fine them too much

10. Why do the Maheus see Catherine moving out as a traitor act to the family?
(a) she's living unmarried with a man
(b) she is giving her money to Chaval
(c) she can't babysit the younger children
(d) her wages will be lost

11. What does Bonnemort tell Etienne about a job at the mine?
(a) he could be a supervisor
(b) there's no opening for a mechanic
(c) there's lots of work
(d) that they need a mechanic

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

13. What happens to Etienne's relationship with Catherine when he moves into her home?
(a) it gets stronger
(b) it becomes physical
(c) it falls apart
(d) nothing

14. What happens in the Maheu family as the strike is called?
(a) it is getting poorer
(b) they are fighting among themselves
(c) it is getting smaller
(d) they steal more food

15. What happens with the provident fund?
(a) it never gets off the ground
(b) it grows slowly
(c) it grows quickly
(d) Etienne steals from it

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Léon Grégoire?

2. What does Lantier think he must do to save Catherine?

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

4. Why do the activist miners say they have decided to leave the Advantage?

5. Why does Chaval believe he owns Catherine?

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