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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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

3. What do the miners decide to do about Jean-Bart?
(a) kill the owner
(b) destroy it
(c) shut it down
(d) work there

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

5. What do the miners do at the entrance to the mine?
(a) yell curses and insults
(b) attack the Borains
(c) destroy the cable
(d) kill the soldiers

6. Who comes to the Maheu house with food for the family?
(a) Catherine
(b) Jacques
(c) Jeanlin
(d) Bonnemort

7. What does Etienne ask Catherine?
(a) that she start back to work
(b) for some money
(c) that she move in with him
(d) that she kill Chaval

8. What has come to Montsou because of the strike?
(a) private detectives
(b) the mine owners
(c) the governor
(d) the army

9. How do the miners feel about the Borains?
(a) indifferent
(b) happy for help
(c) angry and betrayed
(d) confused

10. How does Lantier try to help the negotiation process?
(a) destroying a mine shaft
(b) meeting with Hennebeau
(c) keeping food from the wealthy
(d) killing a mine owner

11. How do the miners leave if the cable is cut?
(a) safety ladders
(b) ropes thrown down
(c) ride the mine carts
(d) walk the tunnel

12. What job does Négrel hold at the mine?
(a) a supervisor
(b) a hewer
(c) a carter
(d) an engineer

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

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

15. What causes an explosion at the Jean-Bart mine?
(a) coal dust igniting
(b) timbers that catch on fire
(c) a fired lamp
(d) dynamite lit by miners

Short Answer Questions

1. How much do the miners' actions at the Jean-Bart mine affect work there?

2. What happens to Alzire?

3. Why do the miners sign up with the union?

4. What do the miners do to the soldiers?

5. Who intervenes at the Hennebearus' to save Cécile?

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