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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What do the Montsou miners do at the Mirou pit?
(a) try to force the workers to stop
(b) nothing
(c) destroy it
(d) burn it

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

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

9. What does Maheu ask of Hennebeau?
(a) for money to feed his family
(b) to be made a supervisor in the mine
(c) to join the union
(d) justice and for bread every day

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

11. How does Grégoire feel about what the miners want?
(a) they should be content with what they have
(b) he agrees with them
(c) he's indifferent to them
(d) he hates them

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

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

14. Why does Hennebeau ignore the miners?
(a) he doesn't understand their request
(b) he doesn't care
(c) he hates poor people
(d) he's worried about his marriage

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chaval announce when he comes to the Advantage during the strike?

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

3. Where does Etienne see Jeanlin go one evening?

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

5. What major character is killed at the confrontation at the mine?

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