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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the owner of the Jean-Bart mine think will happen if the miners strike his mine?
(a) his wife will leave him
(b) he will go bankrupt
(c) someone will be killed
(d) they will destroy the mine

2. What does Hennebeau tell the miners?
(a) he'll talk to his superiors
(b) he'll suspend rent payments on the homes
(c) he'll raise their salary
(d) he'll lower the prices in the grocery store

3. How much do the miners' actions at the Jean-Bart mine affect work there?
(a) it doesn't affect it
(b) it means the work force has to double
(c) it is now impossible
(d) it slows work down

4. Whose life does Lantier save when the Montsou miners are angry at Jean-Bart?
(a) Deneulin
(b) Bonnemort
(c) Chaval
(d) Catherine

5. What does Etienne talk about with his new friend?
(a) the war
(b) their families and homes
(c) the strike
(d) girlfriends

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

7. Why do the miners follow Lantier as a leader?
(a) they agree with his ideas
(b) he is a college graduate
(c) he makes great speeches
(d) he is from a wealthy family

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

9. What do the Montsou miners do to the Jean-Bart mine?
(a) nothing
(b) they burn it
(c) they destroy it
(d) they flood it

10. What happens to Maigrat when he runs from the miners?
(a) he is killed
(b) he sprains his ankle
(c) he gets beat up
(d) he gets away

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

12. What do the Montsu miners do after they are finished at the Jean-Bart mine?
(a) tear down Deneulin's house
(b) go home
(c) go to other mines
(d) head to the Hennebeaus

13. What does Rasseneur feel about the strike?
(a) excited that it happened
(b) it should go on
(c) it's working
(d) it's useless and absurd

14. Who intervenes at the Hennebearus' to save Cécile?
(a) Catherine
(b) Etienne
(c) Deneulin
(d) Bonnmorte

15. What promise to Etienne does Chaval break?
(a) to keep the Jean-Bart miners from working
(b) to help feed the Maheus
(c) to let go of Catherine
(d) to help Jeanlin

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the miners feel about the Borains?

2. What does Pluchart say are the union's goals?

3. What do the Montsou miners do when the Jean-Bart miners come to the surface?

4. What are the miners requesting at Hennebeau's house?

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

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