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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the other miners see Etienne at work?
(a) as an educated person
(b) as lazy
(c) as too hard working
(d) as stupid

2. For what does Maheu get scolded by his boss?
(a) having Etienne live with them
(b) being late to work
(c) leaving a rotten timber in place
(d) dropping a cart

3. What does Lantier think he must do to save Catherine?
(a) get rid of Chaval
(b) run away with her
(c) ask her to marry him
(d) tell her parents about Chaval

4. What happens to Etienne's relationship with Catherine when he moves into her home?
(a) it becomes physical
(b) nothing
(c) it gets stronger
(d) it falls apart

5. What is La Maheude given instead of food?
(a) nothing
(b) money
(c) clothes for the children
(d) a job

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the type of people who tend to go to the Advantage?

2. With whom does Bonnemort live?

3. How do the visitors treat the people in the village?

4. How is Chaval feeling about the relationship between Catherine and Etienne?

5. What is the house number where Bonnemort lives?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes an accident in the mine after the miners go back to work?

2. Describe how Germinal starts out.

3. Who is Denneulin and what does he want from Léon Grégoire?

4. What is the Advantage and what happens there?

5. What happens to the strike of the miners as time goes by?

6. Where does Etienne move in August and why?

7. What does Etienne do after he is rescued?

8. Why does Etienne Lantier set up a meeting with the miners and what happens at that meeting?

9. Why do Chaval and Etienne not get along?

10. What happens in the mine in November and what was the consequences?

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