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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Etienne think about his position as leader in the strike?
(a) it's a lot of responsibility
(b) he's depressed about it
(c) he doesn't want it
(d) he doesn't think he can do it

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

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

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

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

8. Of what does Lantier try to convince Deneulin?
(a) to take on more miners
(b) that all mines must strike
(c) to fire Chaval
(d) to keep Jean-Bart running

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

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

11. What do the Montsou miners do when the Jean-Bart miners come to the surface?
(a) beat them up
(b) throw rocks at them
(c) yell at them
(d) line up so they have to walk through them

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

13. Where does Etienne see Jeanlin go one evening?
(a) to Denneulin
(b) through a hidden hole
(c) to the Hennebeaus'
(d) to Chaval

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

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. Why does Lantier set up a meeting with the miners?

2. What happens to Alzire?

3. What job does Négrel hold at the mine?

4. What do the workers do at the Hennebeaus' 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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