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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pluchart say are the union's goals?
(a) to help all people, rich and poor
(b) the emancipation of the workers
(c) to destroy the mines
(d) to make everyone rich

2. Who is waiting for the Jean-Bart miners when they exit the mine?
(a) Etienne
(b) Chaval
(c) the Montsou miners
(d) Deneulin

3. Where does Lantier hide?
(a) in the Advantage
(b) in the forest
(c) in Paris
(d) in Jeanlin's burrow

4. What do the miners demand of Mr. Hennebeau?
(a) to shut down the mine
(b) to give them better health care
(c) to have a meeting
(d) to leave town

5. How does the union help the miners?
(a) it provides money
(b) it brings in people to help the miners win
(c) it doesn't
(d) it provides food

6. During the last part of the strike what are many of the miners' children doing?
(a) destroying the town
(b) looking for activities that will feed them
(c) vandalizing the managers' homes
(d) attacking the rich children

7. What are the miners requesting at Hennebeau's house?
(a) bread
(b) health care
(c) a share in the mine
(d) better wages

8. What does Etienne see Jeanlin do?
(a) kill the young soldier
(b) burn the store
(c) kill Chaval
(d) steal food

9. What does Chaval announce when he comes to the Advantage during the strike?
(a) he is going to marry Catherine
(b) he's now a supervisor
(c) he will return to work
(d) he's going to Paris

10. Why does Lantier decide to hide?
(a) he steals some food
(b) the miners are mad at him
(c) his old supervisor is looking for him
(d) Chaval is going to kill him

11. What happens after Chaval makes his announcement at the Advantage?
(a) Lantier and he fight
(b) nothing
(c) he leaves
(d) other miners congratulate him

12. Who do the women go to for food?
(a) the church
(b) Deneulin
(c) Maigrat
(d) Chaval

13. Who owns the Jean-Bart mine?
(a) Léon Grégoire
(b) Jeanlin
(c) Deneulin
(d) Jacques Lefattle

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

15. Why does Etienne come out from hiding?
(a) Catherine and he are to be married
(b) he thinks the police quit looking for him
(c) Chaval found out where he is
(d) he wants to see sunlight

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Grégoire feel about what the miners want?

2. What promise to Etienne does Chaval break?

3. What do the Montsou miners do at the Mirou pit?

4. Why is it difficult for the miners to get out of the Jean-Bart mine when the cables are cut?

5. By January, what problem do the striking miners face?

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