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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. Where does Chaval go when the miners strike?
(a) to England
(b) to LaSalle
(c) to the Jean-Bart pit
(d) to Paris

2. What do the miners decide to do when the company lowers their pay?
(a) kill the owner
(b) destroy the mine
(c) rob the mine's payroll
(d) go on strike

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

4. Where does La Maheude go to ask for help?
(a) the bank
(b) the charity center
(c) the Grégoires
(d) the priest

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Etienne do about what he sees on his walk?

2. Why do the activist miners say they have decided to leave the Advantage?

3. Why does Etienne Lantier go for a walk?

4. What is the mining settlement called where the novel takes place?

5. With whom does Bonnemort live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lantier do when the miners begin to reject him?

2. Describe Léon Grégoire and his life.

3. What do the women of the community try to get from Maigrat?

4. How do the women of the settlement feel about Maigrat's death and what do they do after it?

5. Where does Etienne move in August and why?

6. In what type of situation does Bonnemort live?

7. How do the miners feel about Etienne Lantier and what do they do about it?

8. How does Chaval's actions affect Catherine and how does Etienne feel about it?

9. What is the Advantage and what happens there?

10. What does Lantier create for the miners to join and what is one of his first projects?

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