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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does each supervisor or mine director get out of dealing with the miners?
(a) they claim to have no authority
(b) they ignore them
(c) they get police protection
(d) they leave town

2. Why do the miners sign up with the union?
(a) they believe Pluchart's speech
(b) they have no where else to turn
(c) they think the union will feed them
(d) they think the union will bring down the rich

3. Why do the miners organize a meeting in the forest?
(a) to march to Paris
(b) to find deer for food
(c) to discuss Jean-Bart
(d) to plan a bank robbery

4. By January, what problem do the striking miners face?
(a) thugs beating them up
(b) lack of sunshine
(c) cold and hunger
(d) owners destroying the mines

5. How do the soldiers respond to the miners?
(a) fire in the air
(b) ignore them
(c) shoot at them
(d) push back

6. Where do the miners go when they leave the Hennebeaus?
(a) to the tavern
(b) to the grocery store
(c) to church
(d) home

7. Who has decided to cut the cable at the Jean-Bart mine?
(a) Pluchart
(b) Chaval
(c) the miners from Montsou
(d) the Jean-Bart miners

8. What does the mine owners announce Négrel is doing?
(a) going to bring back foreign miners
(b) going to revamp the mine
(c) nothing
(d) going to shut down the mine permanently

9. Who does Lantier get to know after he left hiding?
(a) Deneulin
(b) a young soldier
(c) Pluchart
(d) Zariezia

10. What do the miners do to the soldiers?
(a) yell at them
(b) throw them in the mine
(c) attack them
(d) push them back

11. What is hiding like for Etienne?
(a) difficult
(b) fun
(c) like a game
(d) it has no effect on him

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

13. What do the workers do at the Hennebeaus' house?
(a) attend a party
(b) burn it down
(c) throw rocks in the windows
(d) chant and demonstrate

14. Why is life at the Maheus so difficult?
(a) LaMaheude is crippled
(b) Catherine is dying
(c) no food or heat
(d) Bonnemorte has died

15. Why is it difficult for the miners to get out of the Jean-Bart mine when the cables are cut?
(a) the safety ladders are destroyed
(b) the carts are destroyed
(c) the number of miners
(d) the tunnel is flooded

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the miners follow Lantier as a leader?

2. How does Lantier try to help the negotiation process?

3. What does the owner of the Jean-Bart mine think will happen if the miners strike his mine?

4. Why does Hennebeau ignore the miners?

5. What do the Montsou miners do to the Jean-Bart mine?

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