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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Etienne become a good hewer?
(a) advice and help from Catherine
(b) Bonnemort takes him under his wing
(c) he studies a book
(d) Chaval teaches him

2. Who is Souvarine?
(a) Catherine's boyfriend
(b) Chaval's brother
(c) Etienne's team leader
(d) a Russian anarchist

3. What does Lantier think he must do to save Catherine?
(a) tell her parents about Chaval
(b) run away with her
(c) get rid of Chaval
(d) ask her to marry him

4. How many grandchildren does Bonnemort have?
(a) seven
(b) nine
(c) four
(d) ten

5. How is Chaval feeling about the relationship between Catherine and Etienne?
(a) indifferent
(b) extremely jealous
(c) enraged
(d) happy

6. What does Etienne tell the miners he wants to fight?
(a) the mines closing
(b) poor conditions
(c) capitalism
(d) pay raises

7. What does Etienne suggest the workers create?
(a) a way to rotate workers
(b) a health plan
(c) a provident fund
(d) a different shift system

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

9. Where does Etienne go to rent a room?
(a) the Jolly Fellow
(b) Le Voreux
(c) Marchiennes
(d) the Advantage

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

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

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

13. Why did the Grégoires refuse to help the miners?
(a) they believe the miners spend their money unwisely
(b) they are almost broke themselves
(c) they hate poor people
(d) they believe God doesn't want them to

14. How do the mine owners lower the workers' pay in October?
(a) adds new fines
(b) adds new taxes
(c) makes the carts larger
(d) disguises it as a new mode of payment due

15. What is the new capitalistic trend concerning money?
(a) invest in speculation
(b) put the money in a bank
(c) give money to poor people
(d) put the capital to work and maximize profit

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Maheu get scolded by his boss?

2. About what do Etienne and Souvarine talk?

3. Why would visitors come to the mining village?

4. What does Etienne create with advice from his friend Pluchart?

5. What does Bonnemort tell Etienne about a job at the mine?

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