3. Who is Rasseneur?
(a) the owner of the Jolly Roger
(b) the manager of Jean-Bart
(c) the owner of the Advantage
(d) the owner of Jean-Bart

4. For what is Etienne hired?
(a) as a horse tender
(b) as a loader
(c) as a carpenter
(d) as a hewer

5. How do the visitors feel about the Maheu children?
(a) they are frightful
(b) they are funny
(c) they are delightful
(d) they are stupid

6. Who is Deneulin?
(a) Catherine's boyfriend
(b) a miner in Voreux
(c) Grégoire's cousin
(d) the manager of the mine

7. Who brings in friends from Paris to see the mining town?
(a) Mrs. Hennebeau
(b) the Grégoires
(c) Moretie
(d) Deneulin

8. How do the other miners see Etienne at work?
(a) as lazy
(b) as an educated person
(c) as too hard working
(d) as stupid

9. Where do the Grégoires live?
(a) near Montsou
(b) Voreux
(c) Paris
(d) at the village

10. How do the visitors treat the people in the village?
(a) with surface politeness
(b) with irritation
(c) with aloofness
(d) with kindness

11. What does Souvarine think is the solution to the miners' problems?
(a) working harder
(b) prayer
(c) banding together
(d) total destruction of everything

12. What happens to Jeanlin in the accident in November in the mine?
(a) he is crippled
(b) he is killed
(c) nothing
(d) he is injured

13. What does Deneulin ask of Gregoire?
(a) to pay for Deneulin's schooling
(b) to invest in Gregoire's mine
(c) to marry his daughter
(d) to borrow money

14. How old is Etienne Lantier?
(a) about 18
(b) about 40
(c) about 21
(d) about 30

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