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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why do the activist miners say they have decided to leave the Advantage?
(a) the police hang out there
(b) it's too small
(c) too many management types
(d) because of warm beer and bad soup

5. By what name does Bonnemort's daughter-in-law go?
(a) La Maheude
(b) Cecelia
(c) Isabella
(d) Dominique

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

7. What type of work does Bonnemort do for the mine?
(a) runs the cable
(b) tends the horses
(c) carter
(d) picker

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

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

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

11. How does Etienne feel about the miners with whom he is working?
(a) superior
(b) compassionate
(c) judgmental
(d) irritated

12. When did Bonnemort begin working in the mine?
(a) at 8 years old
(b) at 12 years old
(c) at 16 years old
(d) at 5 years old

13. Who is the overman who hires Étienne Lantier?
(a) Danseart
(b) Dom Gernera
(c) Phillipe
(d) Jaques

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the miners presented to the visitors?

2. Where do the Grégoires live?

3. Where did Léon Grégoire get his money?

4. Who is Rasseneur?

5. What happens in the Maheu family as the strike is called?

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